Myanmar - 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 Myanmar was 6.33 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 40.53 in 1966, while its lowest value was 5.41 in 2014.

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 36.43
1961 27.91
1962 30.25
1963 30.55
1964 26.37
1965 28.93
1966 40.53
1967 29.99
1968 28.10
1969 31.64
1970 30.18
1971 29.33
1972 28.51
1973 11.60
1974 24.83
1975 5.41
1976 18.66
1977 26.20
1978 13.23
1979 20.48
1980 21.56
1981 13.11
1982 13.11
1983 13.11
1984 13.11
1985 13.11
1986 13.11
1987 13.11
1988 13.11
1989 13.11
1990 16.27
1991 13.22
1992 20.43
1993 18.96
1994 17.35
1995 16.09
1996 14.56
1997 17.32
1998 17.97
1999 13.33
2000 8.60
2001 10.64
2002 13.33
2003 10.22
2004 8.89
2005 12.02
2006 13.26
2007 16.38
2008 14.91
2009 19.30
2010 15.71
2011 16.38
2012 33.29
2013 8.23
2014 5.41
2015 9.70
2016 10.57
2017 8.79
2018 6.20
2019 6.38
2020 6.33

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