Gabon - Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports)

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Gabon was 60.73 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 99.59 in 2002, while its lowest value was 60.73 in 2020.

Definition: Merchandise imports from high-income economies are the sum of merchandise imports by the reporting economy from high-income economies according to the World Bank classification of economies. Data are expressed as a percentage of total merchandise imports 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 86.48
1961 89.11
1962 86.86
1963 87.53
1964 87.03
1965 87.00
1966 89.76
1967 89.04
1968 89.34
1969 90.90
1970 89.23
1971 93.44
1972 92.29
1973 88.74
1974 86.90
1975 82.13
1976 91.20
1977 89.46
1978 82.22
1979 90.39
1980 91.36
1981 92.16
1982 92.41
1983 93.37
1984 84.36
1985 84.27
1986 85.08
1987 82.64
1988 83.43
1989 85.17
1990 83.82
1991 74.86
1992 80.48
1993 79.96
1994 80.46
1995 80.05
1996 84.01
1997 78.37
1998 79.71
1999 90.95
2000 86.75
2001 85.18
2002 99.59
2003 87.59
2004 79.11
2005 80.55
2006 81.00
2007 78.05
2008 76.07
2009 78.61
2010 77.10
2011 77.13
2012 73.81
2013 64.94
2014 72.69
2015 61.35
2016 64.59
2017 64.69
2018 65.63
2019 64.45
2020 60.73

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.

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: Imports