Germany - Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports)

Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports) in Germany was 19.17 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 21.19 in 2011, while its lowest value was 9.73 in 1987.

Definition: Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region are the sum of merchandise imports by the reporting economy from 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 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 17.53
1961 17.25
1962 17.42
1963 16.69
1964 17.67
1965 16.61
1966 17.46
1967 17.05
1968 16.68
1969 15.21
1970 14.12
1971 13.30
1972 12.76
1973 13.68
1974 16.69
1975 15.16
1976 15.66
1977 15.83
1978 14.05
1979 14.42
1980 14.35
1981 12.55
1982 12.72
1983 12.21
1984 13.04
1985 12.84
1986 10.35
1987 9.73
1988 9.91
1989 9.95
1990 10.14
1991 10.21
1992 10.26
1993 14.07
1994 14.22
1995 13.77
1996 13.95
1997 14.35
1998 13.46
1999 13.83
2000 14.22
2001 14.05
2002 14.14
2003 14.75
2004 15.71
2005 17.26
2006 18.48
2007 18.74
2008 20.07
2009 19.18
2010 20.88
2011 21.19
2012 21.18
2013 20.81
2014 20.43
2015 19.83
2016 19.40
2017 19.72
2018 19.75
2019 19.26
2020 19.17

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: Imports