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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Japan was 52.26 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 73.58 in 1990, while its lowest value was 52.16 in 2016.

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 71.90
1961 73.29
1962 71.70
1963 70.65
1964 68.69
1965 66.83
1966 63.88
1967 63.53
1968 63.61
1969 63.14
1970 65.37
1971 64.54
1972 64.87
1973 65.83
1974 64.58
1975 65.48
1976 68.43
1977 67.96
1978 69.35
1979 68.03
1980 66.95
1981 70.37
1982 69.82
1983 69.52
1984 70.16
1985 69.23
1986 71.12
1987 71.83
1988 73.03
1989 73.16
1990 73.58
1991 72.54
1992 71.96
1993 70.06
1994 68.88
1995 68.70
1996 67.60
1997 67.24
1998 67.56
1999 66.05
2000 64.57
2001 62.99
2002 61.19
2003 59.35
2004 58.17
2005 58.44
2006 58.67
2007 57.16
2008 58.03
2009 56.56
2010 54.86
2011 55.36
2012 55.79
2013 55.06
2014 54.64
2015 52.31
2016 52.16
2017 53.05
2018 55.06
2019 54.90
2020 52.26

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