Morocco - 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 Morocco was 26.30 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 27.42 in 2019, while its lowest value was 5.78 in 1979.

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
1960 11.03
1961 8.31
1962 12.10
1963 11.11
1964 18.01
1965 14.85
1966 11.10
1967 10.20
1968 9.43
1969 8.34
1970 8.34
1971 9.43
1972 12.08
1973 10.98
1974 12.49
1975 15.25
1976 9.72
1977 8.93
1978 7.13
1979 5.78
1980 6.68
1981 8.26
1982 6.26
1983 7.15
1984 6.20
1985 7.76
1986 7.15
1987 7.89
1988 9.71
1989 8.08
1990 8.39
1991 9.91
1992 11.44
1993 10.39
1994 11.16
1995 12.13
1996 13.89
1997 16.78
1998 10.99
1999 8.64
2000 12.73
2001 15.79
2002 16.61
2003 19.11
2004 22.10
2005 22.59
2006 21.46
2007 22.48
2008 21.97
2009 21.79
2010 22.59
2011 23.74
2012 25.10
2013 23.14
2014 23.62
2015 26.18
2016 24.76
2017 24.61
2018 25.64
2019 27.42
2020 26.30

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