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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Germany was 80.82 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 85.93 in 1999, while its lowest value was 70.69 in 1974.

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 71.84
1961 72.74
1962 72.31
1963 72.30
1964 71.07
1965 72.15
1966 71.29
1967 71.72
1968 71.63
1969 72.11
1970 73.26
1971 73.82
1972 73.88
1973 73.02
1974 70.69
1975 72.48
1976 71.87
1977 72.28
1978 73.68
1979 73.37
1980 74.73
1981 76.69
1982 75.70
1983 75.15
1984 74.81
1985 75.50
1986 78.12
1987 79.33
1988 79.32
1989 79.25
1990 78.37
1991 78.19
1992 79.36
1993 79.94
1994 79.55
1995 79.52
1996 79.50
1997 79.14
1998 80.62
1999 85.93
2000 85.52
2001 85.69
2002 85.63
2003 85.02
2004 84.07
2005 82.53
2006 81.24
2007 81.04
2008 79.72
2009 80.61
2010 79.03
2011 78.71
2012 78.75
2013 79.12
2014 79.56
2015 80.14
2016 80.58
2017 80.26
2018 80.22
2019 80.71
2020 80.82

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