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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Samoa was 77.03 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 56 years was 96.39 in 2000, while its lowest value was 50.06 in 1985.

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 91.58
1965 89.89
1966 89.74
1967 89.19
1968 86.84
1969 88.85
1970 91.79
1971 91.67
1972 92.63
1973 89.65
1974 81.77
1975 93.33
1976 85.84
1977 87.67
1978 91.34
1979 92.72
1980 92.09
1981 91.02
1982 85.81
1983 86.91
1984 85.81
1985 50.06
1986 55.83
1987 55.83
1988 55.83
1989 55.83
1990 60.54
1991 90.26
1992 78.43
1993 82.99
1994 83.14
1995 89.97
1996 87.55
1997 80.66
1998 76.28
1999 76.03
2000 96.39
2001 87.77
2002 80.61
2003 87.28
2004 84.57
2005 81.55
2006 83.77
2007 81.08
2008 77.77
2009 79.80
2010 83.29
2011 83.18
2012 76.29
2013 78.45
2014 74.96
2015 68.56
2016 66.48
2017 77.52
2018 71.71
2019 73.51
2020 77.03

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