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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Romania was 76.34 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 80.36 in 1999, while its lowest value was 24.07 in 1988.

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
1960 30.83
1961 35.12
1962 35.15
1963 33.65
1964 34.45
1965 39.11
1966 43.66
1967 48.60
1968 47.02
1969 47.29
1970 44.83
1971 45.42
1972 46.66
1973 48.75
1974 54.59
1975 49.83
1976 44.90
1977 44.65
1978 45.02
1979 41.29
1980 38.14
1981 41.68
1982 30.92
1983 29.24
1984 29.91
1985 25.28
1986 27.80
1987 28.60
1988 24.07
1989 26.53
1990 46.56
1991 47.96
1992 57.09
1993 60.70
1994 64.62
1995 67.24
1996 69.23
1997 72.30
1998 77.97
1999 80.36
2000 74.77
2001 75.37
2002 76.81
2003 75.51
2004 73.83
2005 71.00
2006 71.07
2007 75.50
2008 73.08
2009 75.94
2010 74.50
2011 74.36
2012 75.61
2013 77.27
2014 76.63
2015 78.12
2016 77.73
2017 76.88
2018 75.34
2019 75.04
2020 76.34

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