Mauritania - 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 Mauritania was 31.00 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 56 years was 32.70 in 2009, while its lowest value was 1.06 in 1970.

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
1964 2.45
1966 5.65
1967 9.90
1968 13.26
1969 9.89
1970 1.06
1971 1.59
1972 5.15
1973 4.18
1974 2.54
1981 2.54
1982 2.54
1983 2.54
1984 2.54
1985 14.73
1986 9.29
1987 23.54
1988 12.68
1989 17.01
1990 15.29
1991 16.38
1992 13.72
1993 20.38
1994 18.11
1995 16.67
1996 15.33
1997 24.36
1998 16.69
1999 16.83
2000 9.17
2001 11.05
2002 12.76
2003 11.30
2004 10.26
2005 9.39
2006 17.38
2007 20.12
2008 30.56
2009 32.70
2010 19.22
2011 15.41
2012 19.00
2013 15.55
2014 17.61
2015 30.91
2016 30.58
2017 21.86
2018 30.23
2019 31.76
2020 31.00

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