São Tomé and Principe - Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports)

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in São Tomé and Principe was 74.98 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 51 years was 96.20 in 1988, while its lowest value was 61.37 in 2019.

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 65.38
1970 71.11
1973 70.41
1974 74.44
1975 80.00
1976 74.12
1977 84.55
1981 93.71
1982 81.03
1983 93.14
1984 85.24
1985 79.50
1986 88.58
1987 85.72
1988 96.20
1989 95.51
1990 88.30
1991 92.33
1992 86.28
1993 84.38
1994 92.81
1995 83.56
1996 82.06
1997 88.41
1998 93.65
1999 90.59
2000 79.17
2001 79.58
2002 81.01
2003 84.97
2004 77.53
2005 71.43
2006 74.16
2007 74.78
2008 65.10
2009 65.97
2010 71.05
2011 77.02
2012 67.96
2013 67.75
2014 70.80
2015 70.04
2016 72.82
2017 66.38
2018 62.69
2019 61.37
2020 74.98

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