North America - Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in Latin America & the Caribbean (% of total merchandise imports)

Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in Latin America & the Caribbean (% of total merchandise imports) in North America was 15.83 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 16.48 in 2019, while its lowest value was 6.27 in 1976.

Definition: Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in Latin America and the Caribbean are the sum of merchandise imports by the reporting economy from low- and middle-income economies in the Latin America and the Caribbean region 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 12.66
1961 11.63
1962 11.35
1963 11.48
1964 10.53
1965 9.29
1966 8.66
1967 8.10
1968 7.67
1969 7.06
1970 7.35
1971 6.50
1972 6.49
1973 6.90
1974 6.99
1975 6.62
1976 6.27
1977 6.76
1978 7.10
1979 7.62
1980 8.26
1981 8.43
1982 9.48
1983 9.67
1984 9.11
1985 8.81
1986 7.73
1987 7.94
1988 8.17
1989 8.45
1990 8.69
1991 8.82
1992 9.07
1993 9.20
1994 9.71
1995 10.44
1996 11.32
1997 11.86
1998 12.24
1999 12.58
2000 13.00
2001 13.44
2002 13.66
2003 13.24
2004 13.04
2005 12.82
2006 13.16
2007 13.03
2008 12.92
2009 13.97
2010 14.80
2011 15.37
2012 15.60
2013 15.58
2014 15.45
2015 15.52
2016 15.84
2017 15.78
2018 15.86
2019 16.48
2020 15.83

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports