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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Myanmar was 30.05 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 86.79 in 1979, while its lowest value was 30.05 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
1960 61.15
1961 62.53
1962 65.29
1963 67.75
1964 60.90
1965 67.42
1966 71.71
1967 68.35
1968 76.82
1969 71.21
1970 71.57
1971 71.77
1972 61.84
1973 65.84
1974 71.73
1975 75.01
1976 77.85
1977 77.31
1978 83.53
1979 86.79
1980 86.08
1981 81.14
1982 81.14
1983 81.14
1984 81.14
1985 81.14
1986 81.14
1987 81.14
1988 81.14
1989 81.14
1990 64.77
1991 54.32
1992 54.04
1993 56.01
1994 50.97
1995 55.04
1996 61.37
1997 54.68
1998 50.89
1999 48.97
2000 61.13
2001 46.57
2002 37.88
2003 40.02
2004 38.62
2005 35.52
2006 32.79
2007 34.59
2008 37.32
2009 32.78
2010 39.43
2011 48.83
2012 46.06
2013 49.27
2014 43.71
2015 38.20
2016 34.12
2017 35.03
2018 34.17
2019 34.10
2020 30.05

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