Japan - 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 Japan was 47.72 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 47.82 in 2016, while its lowest value was 22.18 in 1961.

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 24.48
1961 22.18
1962 24.12
1963 25.23
1964 26.97
1965 28.85
1966 31.73
1967 31.07
1968 31.41
1969 32.57
1970 30.96
1971 32.08
1972 31.58
1973 30.50
1974 32.34
1975 31.92
1976 29.25
1977 29.53
1978 28.22
1979 29.60
1980 30.82
1981 27.22
1982 27.98
1983 28.43
1984 27.98
1985 28.84
1986 26.37
1987 25.65
1988 24.35
1989 24.25
1990 23.93
1991 25.15
1992 27.14
1993 29.13
1994 30.26
1995 30.37
1996 31.59
1997 32.61
1998 32.31
1999 33.79
2000 35.34
2001 36.92
2002 38.76
2003 40.59
2004 41.77
2005 41.49
2006 41.26
2007 42.74
2008 41.94
2009 43.42
2010 45.12
2011 44.63
2012 44.17
2013 44.86
2014 45.31
2015 47.66
2016 47.82
2017 46.92
2018 44.93
2019 45.09
2020 47.72

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