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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Nepal was 12.33 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 39 years was 70.05 in 1990, while its lowest value was 11.12 in 2016.

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
1981 51.21
1982 62.63
1983 54.44
1984 45.78
1985 58.59
1986 55.02
1987 66.91
1988 64.77
1989 69.57
1990 70.05
1991 67.57
1992 64.28
1993 61.32
1994 54.48
1995 53.39
1996 56.66
1997 61.88
1998 56.23
1999 45.24
2000 40.50
2001 44.40
2002 35.30
2003 27.97
2004 23.72
2005 20.67
2006 14.06
2007 17.70
2008 17.67
2009 20.50
2010 16.30
2011 15.08
2012 13.69
2013 14.22
2014 13.45
2015 15.81
2016 11.12
2017 11.60
2018 12.67
2019 11.37
2020 12.33

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