Poland - 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 Poland was 22.92 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 50 years was 24.95 in 2012, while its lowest value was 4.51 in 1974.

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
1970 5.22
1971 4.60
1972 5.15
1973 4.64
1974 4.51
1975 5.61
1976 5.36
1977 5.89
1978 7.25
1979 9.92
1980 12.01
1981 8.65
1982 9.79
1983 10.44
1984 9.01
1985 9.47
1986 11.37
1987 11.07
1988 10.57
1989 10.71
1990 8.23
1991 6.43
1992 21.38
1993 17.00
1994 17.70
1995 16.63
1996 16.36
1997 15.53
1998 13.87
1999 14.63
2000 18.39
2001 19.06
2002 18.91
2003 19.53
2004 16.94
2005 17.96
2006 19.57
2007 19.00
2008 20.31
2009 19.47
2010 20.82
2011 22.96
2012 24.95
2013 23.13
2014 23.11
2015 21.91
2016 20.56
2017 21.28
2018 22.73
2019 22.70
2020 22.92

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