St. Lucia - Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports)

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in St. Lucia was 85.76 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 39 years was 91.43 in 1988, while its lowest value was 65.59 in 1981.

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 65.59
1982 73.01
1983 78.38
1984 83.41
1985 82.76
1986 83.90
1987 85.70
1988 91.43
1989 89.42
1990 89.41
1991 90.02
1992 87.85
1993 86.05
1994 85.83
1995 84.72
1996 84.27
1997 83.12
1998 87.51
1999 88.71
2000 87.30
2001 86.87
2002 87.15
2003 87.59
2004 87.34
2005 86.01
2006 86.03
2007 89.00
2008 88.76
2009 83.84
2010 86.87
2011 85.61
2012 86.31
2013 89.92
2014 86.70
2015 83.58
2016 82.55
2017 80.31
2018 81.78
2019 80.95
2020 85.76

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