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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Malaysia was 57.39 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 53 years was 89.08 in 1991, while its lowest value was 53.78 in 2016.

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
1967 78.40
1968 77.31
1969 77.54
1970 79.66
1971 82.60
1972 81.31
1973 76.82
1974 82.31
1975 83.64
1976 84.74
1977 83.46
1978 84.67
1979 86.88
1980 87.68
1981 87.85
1982 88.01
1983 87.90
1984 87.45
1985 87.25
1986 86.83
1987 86.46
1988 86.09
1989 86.73
1990 89.01
1991 89.08
1992 88.08
1993 88.49
1994 88.39
1995 88.41
1996 86.24
1997 84.91
1998 83.66
1999 83.09
2000 81.83
2001 79.90
2002 76.78
2003 75.24
2004 72.89
2005 71.25
2006 70.14
2007 68.05
2008 66.97
2009 65.27
2010 64.22
2011 63.95
2012 61.89
2013 60.38
2014 60.22
2015 58.58
2016 53.78
2017 54.75
2018 58.44
2019 57.81
2020 57.39

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