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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Iran was 38.08 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 88.43 in 1977, while its lowest value was 38.08 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 85.87
1961 78.62
1962 85.90
1963 82.98
1964 83.20
1965 88.26
1966 86.06
1967 87.44
1968 87.79
1969 86.97
1973 82.97
1974 83.42
1975 85.54
1976 87.12
1977 88.43
1978 88.38
1979 87.28
1980 79.22
1981 79.97
1982 73.90
1983 76.90
1984 76.74
1985 73.78
1986 76.60
1987 70.66
1988 70.32
1989 72.73
1990 71.72
1991 76.06
1992 78.74
1993 79.14
1994 72.92
1995 67.92
1996 63.10
1997 62.60
1998 67.37
1999 65.64
2000 68.48
2001 68.88
2002 74.49
2003 68.37
2004 77.09
2005 75.60
2006 75.71
2007 73.54
2008 67.65
2009 72.74
2010 72.98
2011 60.75
2012 56.65
2013 53.90
2014 53.53
2015 51.57
2016 48.43
2017 54.68
2018 52.56
2019 39.10
2020 38.08

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