Malta - 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 Malta was 20.09 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 20.09 in 2020, while its lowest value was 3.90 in 2000.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 9.52
1961 8.96
1962 10.74
1963 17.86
1964 13.47
1965 11.02
1966 10.53
1967 13.33
1968 9.45
1969 9.20
1970 8.90
1971 7.69
1972 6.46
1973 8.61
1974 8.11
1975 10.32
1976 17.75
1977 15.22
1978 15.58
1979 10.51
1980 8.96
1981 12.33
1982 8.58
1983 9.43
1984 11.99
1985 8.09
1986 9.49
1987 10.25
1988 8.24
1989 5.88
1990 7.31
1991 7.76
1992 8.45
1993 8.67
1994 6.59
1995 5.23
1996 4.13
1997 6.64
1998 11.05
1999 4.16
2000 3.90
2001 4.83
2002 6.38
2003 6.21
2004 8.18
2005 11.05
2006 10.45
2007 8.04
2008 9.13
2009 11.88
2010 9.97
2011 8.38
2012 14.95
2013 15.66
2014 17.31
2015 15.91
2016 11.27
2017 12.79
2018 12.63
2019 14.71
2020 20.09

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