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

Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise exports) in Pakistan was 23.29 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 29.77 in 1981, while its lowest value was 8.49 in 1994.

Definition: Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies outside region are the sum of merchandise exports from the reporting economy to 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 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 19.17
1961 19.01
1962 15.48
1963 16.45
1964 25.24
1965 26.31
1966 23.81
1967 19.75
1968 12.47
1969 17.08
1970 19.15
1971 15.17
1972 12.13
1973 17.57
1974 24.05
1975 17.78
1976 18.06
1977 24.63
1978 20.43
1979 20.12
1980 26.83
1981 29.77
1982 19.60
1983 28.20
1984 20.99
1985 14.77
1986 10.98
1987 10.25
1988 9.57
1989 13.49
1990 10.14
1991 12.06
1992 11.62
1993 10.28
1994 8.49
1995 14.06
1996 12.34
1997 12.74
1998 12.45
1999 11.09
2000 13.17
2001 13.66
2002 13.90
2003 13.52
2004 15.39
2005 15.86
2006 16.29
2007 17.60
2008 20.78
2009 22.94
2010 23.87
2011 24.20
2012 27.19
2013 27.52
2014 25.90
2015 24.67
2016 22.96
2017 23.07
2018 24.14
2019 23.92
2020 23.29

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: Exports