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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Suriname was 60.78 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 93.81 in 1961, while its lowest value was 40.86 in 2018.

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 93.73
1961 93.81
1963 92.33
1964 93.78
1965 93.51
1966 93.51
1967 90.74
1968 90.63
1969 89.78
1970 92.37
1971 93.21
1972 92.04
1973 90.89
1974 91.75
1975 90.14
1976 88.95
1977 88.39
1978 89.71
1979 87.71
1980 87.56
1981 88.22
1982 87.26
1983 82.83
1984 76.20
1985 77.25
1986 79.71
1987 71.84
1988 82.40
1989 86.58
1990 81.48
1991 86.41
1992 87.23
1993 78.96
1994 88.54
1995 81.19
1996 87.19
1997 86.03
1998 87.34
1999 85.27
2000 87.35
2001 79.10
2002 80.20
2003 84.53
2004 82.07
2005 76.39
2006 81.84
2007 79.14
2008 79.58
2009 79.64
2010 77.81
2011 80.49
2012 77.89
2013 79.28
2014 73.33
2015 53.77
2016 56.71
2017 75.55
2018 40.86
2019 61.11
2020 60.78

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