Niger - Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies within region (% of total merchandise imports)

Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies within region (% of total merchandise imports) in Niger was 13.77 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 38.91 in 1983, while its lowest value was 3.95 in 1975.

Definition: Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies within region are the sum of merchandise imports by the reporting economy from other low- and middle-income economies in the same World Bank region according to the World Bank classification of economies. Data are 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. No figures are shown for high-income economies, because they are a separate category in the World Bank classification of economies.

Source: World Bank staff estimates based data from International Monetary Fund's Direction of Trade database.

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Year Value
1960 30.88
1962 8.42
1963 21.33
1964 14.46
1965 11.83
1966 11.11
1967 14.95
1968 14.80
1969 13.36
1970 13.29
1971 11.87
1972 14.22
1973 13.81
1974 18.65
1975 3.95
1976 14.95
1977 19.45
1978 27.43
1979 14.48
1980 17.34
1981 20.93
1982 25.24
1983 38.91
1984 22.74
1985 16.47
1986 31.32
1987 32.19
1988 20.76
1989 25.14
1990 26.11
1991 27.47
1992 30.89
1993 29.03
1994 27.02
1995 26.29
1996 25.67
1997 27.05
1998 26.82
1999 30.95
2000 13.17
2001 35.04
2002 32.27
2003 34.26
2004 30.58
2005 32.77
2006 25.76
2007 24.72
2008 20.12
2009 16.01
2010 12.02
2011 15.55
2012 19.73
2013 21.63
2014 17.80
2015 14.55
2016 15.97
2017 18.64
2018 16.67
2019 14.18
2020 13.77

Development Relevance: The relative importance of intraregional trade is higher for both landlocked countries and small countries with close trade links to the largest regional economy. For most low- and middle-income economies - especially smaller ones - there is a "geographic bias" favoring intraregional trade. Despite the broad trend toward globalization and the reduction of trade barriers, the relative share of intraregional trade increased for most economies between 1999 and 2010. This is due partly to trade-related advantages, such as proximity, lower transport costs, increased knowledge from repeated interaction, and cultural and historical affinity. The direction of trade is also influenced by preferential trade agreements that a country has made with other economies. Though formal agreements on trade liberalization do not automatically increase trade, they nevertheless affect the direction of trade between the participating 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