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

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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Rank Country Value Year
1 Greece 37.80 2020
2 Netherlands 33.71 2020
3 Spain 28.63 2020
4 United Kingdom 27.41 2020
5 Italy 26.94 2020
6 Turkey 26.60 2020
7 Romania 23.64 2020
8 Norway 23.44 2020
9 Switzerland 23.39 2020
10 Slovenia 23.35 2020
11 Poland 22.92 2020
12 Ukraine 22.66 2020
13 Lithuania 21.44 2020
14 Croatia 20.08 2020
15 Hungary 19.74 2020
16 Iceland 19.63 2020
17 Germany 19.17 2020
18 Malta 19.04 2020
19 Serbia 18.93 2020
20 Finland 18.29 2020
21 Czech Republic 17.85 2020
22 France 17.66 2020
23 Estonia 17.50 2020
24 Belgium 17.18 2020
25 Portugal 16.89 2020
26 Latvia 16.47 2020
27 Moldova 15.89 2020
28 Denmark 15.48 2020
29 Belarus 15.12 2020
30 Cyprus 15.10 2020
31 Albania 14.90 2020
32 Montenegro 14.70 2020
33 North Macedonia 13.60 2020
34 Bosnia and Herzegovina 12.84 2020
35 Slovak Republic 12.71 2020
36 Sweden 12.50 2020
37 Austria 12.02 2020
38 Bulgaria 11.26 2020
39 Ireland 9.37 2020
40 San Marino 3.34 2020
41 Luxembourg 2.78 2020

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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