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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Ireland was 87.22 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 93.86 in 1981, while its lowest value was 82.63 in 1960.

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 82.63
1961 83.73
1962 83.58
1963 84.68
1964 85.86
1965 85.35
1966 86.50
1967 85.51
1968 86.55
1969 88.10
1970 90.15
1971 88.28
1972 89.28
1973 90.05
1974 88.91
1975 89.31
1976 89.34
1977 89.51
1978 90.91
1979 91.52
1980 92.46
1981 93.86
1982 93.52
1983 93.00
1984 92.64
1985 92.84
1986 93.26
1987 93.49
1988 92.55
1989 92.79
1990 92.85
1991 92.83
1992 93.14
1993 90.57
1994 89.17
1995 89.08
1996 86.89
1997 88.55
1998 89.99
1999 89.84
2000 88.98
2001 90.22
2002 91.95
2003 90.50
2004 90.49
2005 90.58
2006 90.64
2007 90.61
2008 90.79
2009 89.19
2010 90.03
2011 89.90
2012 87.76
2013 90.04
2014 89.66
2015 89.80
2016 90.78
2017 90.19
2018 87.62
2019 88.52
2020 87.22

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