Pakistan - Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports)

Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports) in Pakistan was 68.86 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 82.08 in 1999, while its lowest value was 54.00 in 1965.

Definition: Merchandise exports to high-income economies are the sum of merchandise exports from the reporting economy to high-income economies 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.

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Year Value
1960 62.56
1961 61.28
1962 61.86
1963 65.16
1964 55.12
1965 54.00
1966 58.00
1967 64.33
1968 68.36
1969 66.32
1970 64.85
1971 67.05
1972 74.16
1973 72.45
1974 60.26
1975 66.85
1976 70.48
1977 60.17
1978 69.96
1979 64.96
1980 60.86
1981 58.00
1982 66.30
1983 62.12
1984 67.65
1985 71.14
1986 76.34
1987 76.51
1988 77.74
1989 75.54
1990 77.76
1991 76.28
1992 77.26
1993 79.51
1994 80.50
1995 75.45
1996 78.01
1997 81.58
1998 80.06
1999 82.08
2000 81.64
2001 79.98
2002 80.67
2003 79.63
2004 77.30
2005 72.45
2006 72.76
2007 72.81
2008 66.70
2009 62.65
2010 61.10
2011 57.82
2012 57.75
2013 57.86
2014 60.30
2015 61.23
2016 63.96
2017 64.31
2018 63.66
2019 65.71
2020 68.86

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. At the regional level most exports from low- and middle-income economies are to high-income economies, but the share of intraregional trade is increasing. Geographic patterns of trade vary widely by country and commodity. Larger shares of exports from oil- and resource-rich economies are to 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: Exports