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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Kenya was 39.28 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 98.76 in 2004, while its lowest value was 39.28 in 2020.

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 74.36
1961 72.22
1962 74.36
1963 74.73
1964 79.25
1965 75.84
1966 73.22
1967 76.35
1968 69.39
1969 72.40
1970 72.80
1971 75.09
1972 74.09
1973 76.25
1974 74.11
1975 72.41
1976 72.12
1977 77.88
1978 77.79
1979 85.27
1980 87.53
1981 90.90
1982 84.05
1983 82.11
1984 79.99
1985 79.99
1986 79.99
1987 87.60
1988 86.49
1989 86.49
1990 76.95
1991 68.28
1992 75.80
1993 68.03
1994 67.83
1995 69.41
1996 70.97
1997 70.86
1998 73.70
1999 74.86
2000 75.49
2001 74.60
2002 70.48
2003 67.69
2004 98.76
2005 66.55
2006 66.25
2007 61.37
2008 57.58
2009 57.13
2010 54.89
2011 53.35
2012 50.80
2013 46.61
2014 49.29
2015 43.86
2016 41.80
2017 40.73
2018 44.70
2019 44.08
2020 39.28

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