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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Rwanda was 24.86 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 56 years was 67.28 in 2001, while its lowest value was 24.86 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
1964 31.03
1965 39.60
1966 42.00
1967 45.54
1968 48.46
1969 53.85
1970 53.63
1971 54.74
1972 39.94
1973 45.95
1974 48.50
1975 51.30
1976 47.86
1977 45.93
1978 46.69
1979 47.18
1980 49.27
1981 48.74
1982 40.50
1983 43.01
1984 37.07
1985 49.82
1986 62.51
1987 52.41
1988 50.48
1989 47.55
1990 44.80
1991 38.79
1992 46.11
1993 51.60
1994 47.70
1995 48.55
1996 43.44
1997 54.14
1998 44.98
1999 47.59
2000 51.58
2001 67.28
2002 63.70
2003 60.63
2004 57.92
2005 48.53
2006 36.10
2007 39.23
2008 40.90
2009 46.35
2010 40.11
2011 40.79
2012 39.51
2013 40.74
2014 34.60
2015 29.53
2016 29.69
2017 28.69
2018 36.41
2019 32.21
2020 24.86

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