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

Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports) in Kenya was 43.52 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 75.43 in 1962, while its lowest value was 35.87 in 2004.

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.

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Year Value
1960 75.39
1961 73.54
1962 75.43
1963 71.89
1964 73.63
1965 70.63
1966 72.08
1967 67.39
1968 45.61
1969 45.30
1970 45.90
1971 42.74
1972 48.56
1973 50.09
1974 45.96
1975 45.28
1976 56.21
1977 65.01
1978 59.22
1979 59.23
1980 51.99
1981 51.16
1982 50.39
1983 54.16
1984 57.01
1985 57.01
1986 57.01
1987 55.94
1988 61.38
1989 61.38
1990 42.76
1991 63.63
1992 62.95
1993 47.66
1994 48.19
1995 42.93
1996 42.53
1997 44.76
1998 41.60
1999 52.39
2000 40.65
2001 36.43
2002 37.98
2003 37.49
2004 35.87
2005 38.27
2006 42.80
2007 43.43
2008 40.68
2009 40.63
2010 39.94
2011 36.48
2012 37.67
2013 38.63
2014 41.89
2015 41.23
2016 40.71
2017 41.53
2018 43.93
2019 44.91
2020 43.52

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