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

Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports) in Pakistan was 50.62 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 50.62 in 2020, while its lowest value was 3.65 in 1965.

Definition: Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region are the sum of merchandise imports by the reporting economy from 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 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 9.17
1961 9.48
1962 5.19
1963 7.62
1964 6.30
1965 3.65
1966 8.14
1967 7.95
1968 7.25
1969 6.47
1970 7.68
1971 10.16
1972 13.86
1973 11.24
1974 11.23
1975 11.04
1976 9.60
1977 9.79
1978 10.49
1979 12.77
1980 13.27
1981 10.62
1982 10.45
1983 12.40
1984 14.88
1985 14.40
1986 12.92
1987 15.11
1988 14.04
1989 15.52
1990 16.83
1991 18.04
1992 18.23
1993 18.15
1994 21.79
1995 23.58
1996 20.88
1997 20.62
1998 24.62
1999 23.16
2000 22.12
2001 22.43
2002 23.53
2003 23.46
2004 25.38
2005 27.40
2006 25.91
2007 29.36
2008 30.20
2009 31.40
2010 33.02
2011 31.57
2012 31.15
2013 29.98
2014 36.01
2015 42.07
2016 45.98
2017 44.36
2018 42.30
2019 44.30
2020 50.62

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: Imports