Kenya - 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 Kenya was 21.57 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 24.04 in 2017, while its lowest value was 4.45 in 1969.

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.

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Year Value
1960 6.38
1961 5.59
1962 5.18
1963 5.08
1964 6.22
1965 7.29
1966 6.92
1967 7.62
1968 5.49
1969 4.45
1970 5.44
1971 5.39
1972 6.28
1973 6.07
1974 5.85
1975 6.76
1976 4.47
1977 4.91
1978 6.44
1979 7.32
1980 8.24
1981 9.61
1982 6.92
1983 8.31
1984 10.79
1985 10.79
1986 10.79
1987 9.70
1988 6.45
1989 6.45
1990 11.07
1991 14.74
1992 11.75
1993 14.61
1994 13.48
1995 12.47
1996 12.38
1997 12.86
1998 18.54
1999 16.14
2000 18.97
2001 18.87
2002 16.77
2003 16.26
2004 17.06
2005 16.29
2006 17.23
2007 17.62
2008 18.74
2009 17.66
2010 20.59
2011 19.41
2012 19.77
2013 20.42
2014 18.18
2015 20.38
2016 22.42
2017 24.04
2018 23.58
2019 20.69
2020 21.57

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