Sudan - Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports)

Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports) in Sudan was 35.80 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 45.40 in 2005, while its lowest value was 8.01 in 1987.

Definition: Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region are the sum of merchandise imports by the reporting economy from other low- and middle-income economies in other World Bank regions 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 27.26
1961 23.48
1962 22.59
1963 14.89
1964 16.07
1965 16.59
1966 22.79
1967 26.92
1968 24.15
1969 25.73
1970 26.03
1971 36.39
1972 27.09
1973 20.28
1974 30.78
1975 20.57
1976 21.45
1977 24.69
1978 16.46
1979 13.27
1980 15.86
1981 10.28
1982 15.58
1983 10.31
1984 10.79
1985 10.21
1986 11.69
1987 8.01
1988 13.42
1989 13.74
1990 24.98
1991 28.21
1992 33.76
1993 34.06
1994 36.23
1995 40.36
1996 38.75
1997 40.69
1998 37.49
1999 36.30
2000 32.32
2001 30.33
2002 25.27
2003 25.94
2004 33.37
2005 45.40
2006 24.98
2007 22.72
2008 25.84
2009 23.78
2010 28.30
2011 30.28
2012 34.40
2013 33.44
2014 33.94
2015 34.24
2016 41.02
2017 33.57
2018 37.95
2019 35.80
2020 35.80

Development Relevance: Although global integration has increased, low- and middle-income economies still face trade barriers when accessing other markets.

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