Kenya - 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 Kenya was 51.88 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 51.88 in 2020, while its lowest value was 5.26 in 1981.

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 12.82
1961 12.95
1962 13.65
1963 12.71
1964 9.69
1965 13.01
1966 14.90
1967 13.85
1968 12.62
1969 11.59
1970 9.74
1971 9.83
1972 11.50
1973 11.79
1974 17.31
1975 19.65
1976 20.60
1977 14.06
1978 11.13
1979 8.87
1980 5.82
1981 5.26
1982 9.45
1983 13.04
1984 14.82
1985 14.82
1986 14.82
1987 6.68
1988 7.87
1989 7.87
1990 6.62
1991 9.67
1992 13.15
1993 10.17
1994 15.37
1995 17.11
1996 17.05
1997 14.11
1998 17.58
1999 15.18
2000 15.90
2001 16.71
2002 19.53
2003 20.84
2005 19.92
2006 23.34
2007 29.04
2008 33.19
2009 31.05
2010 35.31
2011 36.87
2012 41.22
2013 45.04
2014 43.53
2015 47.87
2016 51.14
2017 50.19
2018 45.70
2019 45.39
2020 51.88

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