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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Maldives was 48.43 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 39 years was 82.56 in 1987, while its lowest value was 48.43 in 2020.

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
1981 73.28
1982 56.50
1983 79.05
1984 81.53
1985 80.91
1986 80.04
1987 82.56
1988 80.39
1989 80.45
1990 80.97
1991 78.53
1992 76.78
1993 74.28
1994 71.69
1995 79.55
1996 63.95
1997 63.87
1998 65.34
1999 63.98
2000 56.96
2001 59.20
2002 60.21
2003 58.92
2004 62.62
2005 66.00
2006 66.61
2007 61.88
2008 66.06
2009 63.02
2010 62.51
2011 65.50
2012 65.69
2013 65.98
2014 63.49
2015 55.09
2016 49.94
2017 50.78
2018 48.82
2019 51.56
2020 48.43

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