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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Sri Lanka was 38.82 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 78.34 in 1984, while its lowest value was 38.82 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
1960 53.82
1961 53.20
1962 55.88
1963 51.99
1964 48.26
1965 52.62
1966 47.80
1967 53.77
1968 52.45
1969 54.91
1970 54.50
1971 50.16
1972 42.76
1973 42.85
1974 51.53
1975 60.78
1976 63.78
1977 60.82
1978 68.66
1979 67.83
1980 65.63
1981 73.61
1982 68.85
1983 68.88
1984 78.34
1985 70.94
1986 70.51
1987 68.39
1988 63.95
1989 65.22
1990 61.07
1991 63.88
1992 58.18
1993 60.71
1994 64.91
1995 63.56
1996 63.04
1997 65.15
1998 63.31
1999 61.69
2000 66.10
2001 62.71
2002 66.20
2003 59.80
2004 57.42
2005 51.99
2006 50.22
2007 51.34
2008 53.45
2009 53.75
2010 54.88
2011 49.64
2012 51.74
2013 51.06
2014 46.07
2015 53.58
2016 41.38
2017 42.38
2018 45.85
2019 41.43
2020 38.82

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