Solomon Islands - Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies within region (% of total merchandise exports)

Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies within region (% of total merchandise exports) in Solomon Islands was 71.48 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 45 years was 74.92 in 2018, while its lowest value was 2.59 in 1981.

Definition: Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies within region are the sum of merchandise exports from the reporting economy to other low- and middle-income economies in the same World Bank region as a percentage of total merchandise exports by the economy. Data are computed only if at least half of the economies in the partner country group had non-missing data. No figures are shown for high-income economies, because they are a separate category in the World Bank classification of economies.

Source: World Bank staff estimates based data from International Monetary Fund's Direction of Trade database.

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Year Value
1975 5.50
1976 12.01
1977 8.12
1978 7.26
1979 8.83
1980 7.86
1981 2.59
1982 2.97
1983 7.76
1984 12.54
1985 8.38
1986 28.93
1987 15.62
1988 18.34
1989 17.79
1990 8.48
1991 6.87
1992 7.09
1993 6.25
1994 9.14
1995 11.71
1996 12.10
1997 13.07
1998 31.96
1999 31.82
2000 54.82
2001 47.65
2002 57.59
2003 74.89
2004 69.53
2005 61.99
2006 63.37
2007 70.25
2008 70.41
2009 64.35
2010 70.34
2011 61.77
2012 54.26
2013 55.33
2014 67.94
2015 66.67
2016 72.86
2017 74.12
2018 74.92
2019 73.72
2020 71.48

Development Relevance: The relative importance of intraregional trade is higher for both landlocked countries and small countries with close trade links to the largest regional economy. For most low- and middle-income economies - especially smaller ones - there is a "geographic bias" favoring intraregional trade. Despite the broad trend toward globalization and the reduction of trade barriers, the relative share of intraregional trade increased for most economies between 1999 and 2010. This is due partly to trade-related advantages, such as proximity, lower transport costs, increased knowledge from repeated interaction, and cultural and historical affinity. The direction of trade is also influenced by preferential trade agreements that a country has made with other economies. Though formal agreements on trade liberalization do not automatically increase trade, they nevertheless affect the direction of trade between the participating 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: Exports