Macao SAR, China - 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 Macao SAR, China was 34.20 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 57 years was 49.40 in 2006, while its lowest value was 19.80 in 1990.

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
1963 33.81
1964 35.49
1965 39.74
1966 42.04
1967 34.59
1969 25.72
1970 27.48
1971 27.48
1972 26.34
1973 26.23
1974 25.84
1975 19.96
1976 24.56
1977 27.09
1978 27.06
1979 30.41
1980 26.86
1981 33.77
1982 30.26
1983 29.22
1984 30.55
1985 23.44
1986 20.71
1987 21.81
1988 21.57
1989 21.67
1990 19.80
1991 23.43
1992 22.41
1993 23.46
1994 22.74
1995 25.30
1996 27.12
1997 31.45
1998 36.56
1999 40.56
2000 44.92
2001 46.23
2002 45.63
2003 47.21
2004 48.56
2005 47.89
2006 49.40
2007 46.77
2008 43.93
2009 36.86
2010 36.66
2011 35.39
2012 37.07
2013 36.58
2014 36.99
2015 38.40
2016 40.81
2017 38.49
2018 39.91
2019 39.07
2020 34.20

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