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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Seychelles was 67.40 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 50 years was 88.26 in 2011, while its lowest value was 51.14 in 2016.

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
1970 78.41
1971 76.60
1972 78.97
1973 63.82
1974 63.82
1975 67.00
1976 64.63
1977 69.76
1978 70.05
1979 64.40
1980 78.34
1981 70.89
1982 68.42
1983 73.72
1984 68.56
1985 73.25
1986 75.50
1987 76.69
1988 82.13
1989 75.41
1990 78.11
1991 73.95
1992 71.34
1993 59.83
1994 58.76
1995 61.95
1996 70.30
1997 74.52
1998 69.52
1999 79.76
2000 77.86
2001 85.43
2002 80.50
2003 80.07
2004 82.83
2005 83.62
2006 79.99
2007 83.42
2008 83.78
2009 78.85
2010 85.68
2011 88.26
2012 85.15
2013 77.79
2014 77.04
2015 74.87
2016 51.14
2017 78.38
2018 73.59
2019 70.05
2020 67.40

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