France - Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports)

Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports) in France was 81.90 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 85.63 in 2001, while its lowest value was 50.77 in 1960.

Definition: Merchandise exports to high-income economies are the sum of merchandise exports from the reporting economy to high-income economies according to the World Bank classification of economies. Data are expressed as a percentage of total merchandise exports by the economy. Data are computed only if at least half of the economies in the partner country group had non-missing data.

Source: World Bank staff estimates based data from International Monetary Fund's Direction of Trade database.

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Year Value
1960 50.77
1961 54.85
1962 59.95
1963 61.25
1964 62.72
1965 64.45
1966 65.01
1967 65.09
1968 64.91
1969 66.04
1970 66.86
1971 67.24
1972 68.72
1973 68.14
1974 66.90
1975 61.74
1976 63.43
1977 63.42
1978 64.29
1979 65.91
1980 63.62
1981 62.74
1982 64.11
1983 65.25
1984 67.28
1985 67.95
1986 69.97
1987 72.84
1988 73.73
1989 73.48
1990 74.15
1991 76.13
1992 75.53
1993 73.95
1994 75.38
1995 76.19
1996 76.71
1997 74.40
1998 76.85
1999 85.59
2000 85.55
2001 85.63
2002 84.93
2003 85.46
2004 84.20
2005 82.60
2006 83.36
2007 82.18
2008 81.06
2009 79.99
2010 80.27
2011 79.85
2012 78.79
2013 79.09
2014 79.72
2015 79.43
2016 80.45
2017 80.34
2018 80.88
2019 81.51
2020 81.90

Development Relevance: Low- and middle-income economies are an increasingly important part of the global trading system. Trade between high-income economies and low- and middle-income economies has grown faster than trade between high-income economies. This increased trade benefits both producers and consumers in developing and high-income economies. At the regional level most exports from low- and middle-income economies are to high-income economies, but the share of intraregional trade is increasing. Geographic patterns of trade vary widely by country and commodity. Larger shares of exports from oil- and resource-rich economies are to high-income economies.

Limitations and Exceptions: Data on exports and imports are from the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Direction of Trade database and should be broadly consistent with data from other sources, such as the United Nations Statistics Division's Commodity Trade (Comtrade) database. All high-income economies and major low- and middle-income economies report trade data to the IMF on a timely basis, covering about 85 percent of trade for recent years. Trade data for less timely reporters and for countries that do not report are estimated using reports of trading partner countries. Therefore, data on trade between developing and high-income economies should be generally complete. But trade flows between many low- and middle-income economies - particularly those in Sub-Saharan Africa - are not well recorded, and the value of trade among low- and middle-income economies may be understated.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports