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

Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports) in Qatar was 56.56 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 48 years was 88.60 in 1986, while its lowest value was 56.56 in 2020.

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
1972 71.45
1973 67.51
1976 75.64
1978 80.09
1979 75.88
1980 78.21
1981 81.12
1982 81.12
1983 81.12
1984 81.12
1985 81.12
1986 88.60
1987 83.71
1988 77.96
1989 81.84
1990 80.59
1991 81.97
1992 82.54
1993 83.62
1994 85.28
1995 83.18
1996 84.86
1997 85.41
1998 85.73
1999 86.28
2000 80.84
2001 88.59
2002 84.07
2003 84.13
2004 78.52
2005 76.95
2006 77.20
2007 77.74
2008 80.18
2009 79.95
2010 79.33
2011 78.36
2012 74.70
2013 75.01
2014 71.19
2015 69.18
2016 64.50
2017 63.03
2018 61.49
2019 61.55
2020 56.56

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