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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Malawi was 33.55 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 56 years was 60.73 in 1986, while its lowest value was 25.50 in 2005.

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
1964 40.53
1965 50.17
1966 45.56
1967 47.14
1968 47.94
1969 45.31
1970 44.05
1971 58.75
1972 56.08
1973 50.57
1974 47.63
1975 52.56
1976 55.46
1977 52.19
1978 52.74
1979 47.42
1980 49.39
1981 48.99
1982 45.78
1983 43.12
1984 40.77
1985 50.90
1986 60.73
1987 37.03
1988 49.71
1989 41.48
1990 49.41
1991 47.95
1992 45.25
1993 33.44
1994 31.17
1995 44.65
1996 29.67
1997 27.50
1998 27.75
1999 25.58
2000 34.73
2001 28.55
2002 32.62
2003 28.56
2004 26.46
2005 25.50
2006 28.63
2007 30.97
2008 27.64
2009 26.47
2010 32.39
2011 33.03
2012 34.71
2013 33.77
2014 31.87
2015 37.70
2016 36.22
2017 39.19
2018 39.81
2019 39.46
2020 33.55

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