St. Kitts and Nevis - Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports)

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in St. Kitts and Nevis was 86.91 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 39 years was 96.40 in 1987, while its lowest value was 61.45 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
1981 88.38
1982 88.51
1983 83.90
1984 83.61
1985 61.45
1986 71.88
1987 96.40
1988 88.61
1989 84.35
1990 88.78
1991 89.53
1992 94.82
1993 93.29
1994 81.10
1995 72.40
1996 93.26
1997 88.80
1998 90.45
1999 93.24
2000 93.99
2001 93.07
2002 93.53
2003 93.56
2004 93.33
2005 91.72
2006 89.32
2007 89.04
2008 88.30
2009 87.80
2010 89.32
2011 88.41
2012 87.79
2013 87.12
2014 85.25
2015 85.04
2016 88.12
2017 87.38
2018 85.66
2019 80.04
2020 86.91

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