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

Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise exports) in Sudan was 22.59 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 77.10 in 2005, while its lowest value was 2.09 in 2007.

Definition: Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies outside region are the sum of merchandise exports from the reporting economy to 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 exports 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 23.00
1961 20.91
1962 26.88
1963 20.41
1964 18.53
1965 20.04
1966 24.07
1967 20.36
1968 19.72
1969 26.44
1970 23.87
1971 28.14
1972 37.11
1973 31.54
1974 22.89
1975 22.93
1976 19.81
1977 24.58
1978 21.64
1979 21.33
1980 16.75
1981 15.04
1982 14.14
1983 23.75
1984 29.07
1985 26.29
1986 24.37
1987 22.55
1988 18.95
1989 24.65
1990 32.74
1991 31.00
1992 31.26
1993 26.46
1994 33.54
1995 36.71
1996 36.94
1997 29.39
1998 23.94
1999 24.17
2000 15.85
2001 15.99
2002 16.38
2003 54.23
2004 75.36
2005 77.10
2006 4.58
2007 2.09
2008 6.15
2009 7.25
2010 3.97
2011 2.30
2012 7.18
2013 6.05
2014 10.17
2015 15.46
2016 25.27
2017 19.22
2018 26.18
2019 22.59
2020 22.59

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: Exports