Japan - Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise exports)

Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise exports) in Japan was 41.17 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 41.17 in 2020, while its lowest value was 15.07 in 1988.

Definition: Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies outside region are the sum of merchandise exports from the reporting economy to 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 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 32.05
1961 34.14
1962 29.21
1963 28.53
1964 29.71
1965 28.03
1966 26.63
1967 26.87
1968 24.97
1969 24.18
1970 23.02
1971 22.23
1972 20.69
1973 23.43
1974 27.64
1975 30.64
1976 23.92
1977 24.17
1978 24.51
1979 23.83
1980 26.02
1981 25.54
1982 22.99
1983 21.70
1984 18.94
1985 19.73
1986 16.20
1987 15.15
1988 15.07
1989 15.26
1990 16.21
1991 17.15
1992 18.84
1993 21.20
1994 21.32
1995 23.05
1996 23.68
1997 22.76
1998 20.01
1999 19.93
2000 21.22
2001 22.82
2002 24.42
2003 27.01
2004 28.34
2005 29.43
2006 30.37
2007 32.65
2008 35.15
2009 36.36
2010 38.81
2011 39.98
2012 40.08
2013 39.38
2014 39.03
2015 37.64
2016 37.21
2017 38.91
2018 40.13
2019 39.51
2020 41.17

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: Exports