France - Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise exports)

Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise exports) in France was 17.64 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 37.65 in 1960, while its lowest value was 10.81 in 1988.

Definition: Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies outside region are the sum of merchandise exports from the reporting economy to other low- and middle-income economies in other World Bank regions 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 37.65
1961 32.83
1962 27.35
1963 26.65
1964 24.28
1965 22.50
1966 21.29
1967 21.03
1968 20.82
1969 18.07
1970 17.57
1971 16.87
1972 15.00
1973 15.33
1974 17.98
1975 22.31
1976 20.29
1977 20.25
1978 18.31
1979 17.80
1980 18.98
1981 20.92
1982 19.92
1983 18.28
1984 16.20
1985 16.25
1986 13.97
1987 11.85
1988 10.81
1989 11.66
1990 11.53
1991 11.24
1992 11.70
1993 12.68
1994 12.22
1995 12.90
1996 13.13
1997 13.53
1998 13.05
1999 12.42
2000 12.78
2001 12.64
2002 12.82
2003 12.81
2004 13.44
2005 15.33
2006 14.65
2007 15.45
2008 16.72
2009 17.40
2010 18.78
2011 19.28
2012 20.23
2013 20.02
2014 19.55
2015 19.81
2016 18.95
2017 18.93
2018 18.19
2019 17.70
2020 17.64

Development Relevance: Although global integration has increased, low- and middle-income economies still face trade barriers when accessing other markets.

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