Qatar - Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports)

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Qatar was 61.50 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 51 years was 92.29 in 1977, while its lowest value was 61.50 in 2020.

Definition: Merchandise imports from high-income economies are the sum of merchandise imports by the reporting economy from high-income economies 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
1969 77.78
1970 75.06
1971 82.63
1972 82.07
1973 81.46
1974 77.95
1975 86.11
1976 90.53
1977 92.29
1978 91.63
1979 90.27
1980 87.57
1981 86.01
1982 84.78
1983 84.45
1984 78.83
1985 80.28
1986 79.00
1987 80.76
1988 79.22
1989 83.79
1990 84.68
1991 83.15
1992 83.42
1993 83.12
1994 81.01
1995 81.19
1996 88.24
1997 86.25
1998 87.31
1999 83.83
2000 84.25
2001 84.27
2002 84.18
2003 84.03
2004 87.37
2005 80.80
2006 80.69
2007 81.43
2008 76.87
2009 76.35
2010 75.82
2011 74.18
2012 73.90
2013 73.83
2014 72.76
2015 71.59
2016 74.16
2017 69.38
2018 65.46
2019 66.16
2020 61.50

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.

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