Poland - 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 Poland was 12.57 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 50 years was 19.63 in 1997, while its lowest value was 5.15 in 1973.

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
1970 6.00
1971 6.68
1972 5.59
1973 5.15
1974 6.34
1975 9.31
1976 9.14
1977 8.68
1978 7.65
1979 8.96
1980 10.37
1981 11.76
1982 14.70
1983 14.41
1984 13.31
1985 14.17
1986 14.14
1987 11.78
1988 12.16
1989 11.03
1990 9.73
1991 5.72
1992 17.82
1993 16.91
1994 15.27
1995 15.07
1996 17.24
1997 19.63
1998 14.75
1999 10.75
2000 10.32
2001 11.44
2002 10.94
2003 10.55
2004 12.33
2005 13.67
2006 14.10
2007 14.75
2008 15.48
2009 13.24
2010 14.16
2011 14.41
2012 16.32
2013 16.59
2014 14.28
2015 12.38
2016 12.44
2017 12.56
2018 11.96
2019 12.32
2020 12.57

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