Japan - Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports)

Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports) in Japan was 58.82 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 82.02 in 1989, while its lowest value was 58.82 in 2020.

Definition: Merchandise exports to high-income economies are the sum of merchandise exports from the reporting economy to high-income economies according to the World Bank classification of economies. Data are expressed as a percentage of total merchandise exports 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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 61.42
1961 59.06
1962 63.51
1963 63.08
1964 61.60
1965 62.84
1966 65.32
1967 65.46
1968 68.08
1969 68.87
1970 69.86
1971 69.56
1972 71.31
1973 68.84
1974 64.01
1975 59.65
1976 66.13
1977 67.58
1978 69.01
1979 70.35
1980 68.44
1981 69.18
1982 71.26
1983 74.23
1984 77.67
1985 76.94
1986 80.61
1987 82.01
1988 81.96
1989 82.02
1990 81.17
1991 80.40
1992 79.30
1993 77.24
1994 77.53
1995 75.60
1996 74.99
1997 76.86
1998 79.74
1999 79.81
2000 78.60
2001 76.90
2002 75.38
2003 72.88
2004 71.47
2005 70.36
2006 69.34
2007 67.02
2008 64.58
2009 63.35
2010 60.77
2011 59.60
2012 59.57
2013 60.40
2014 60.72
2015 62.02
2016 62.49
2017 61.04
2018 59.85
2019 60.46
2020 58.82

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. At the regional level most exports from low- and middle-income economies are to high-income economies, but the share of intraregional trade is increasing. Geographic patterns of trade vary widely by country and commodity. Larger shares of exports from oil- and resource-rich economies are to 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: Exports