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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Switzerland was 76.60 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 92.79 in 1999, while its lowest value was 76.60 in 2020.

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 86.37
1961 87.32
1962 88.15
1963 88.31
1964 87.97
1965 87.96
1966 87.66
1967 87.09
1968 87.49
1969 87.82
1970 88.40
1971 89.18
1972 89.75
1973 88.94
1974 88.58
1975 89.08
1976 86.99
1977 86.40
1978 87.86
1979 81.13
1980 86.51
1981 86.65
1982 86.14
1983 86.23
1984 86.79
1985 87.46
1986 90.33
1987 90.99
1988 91.16
1989 91.10
1990 91.20
1991 90.69
1992 90.85
1993 90.85
1994 90.41
1995 90.60
1996 90.27
1997 89.45
1998 89.69
1999 92.79
2000 90.55
2001 90.25
2002 92.19
2003 92.42
2004 92.15
2005 91.74
2006 90.61
2007 90.80
2008 90.52
2009 89.56
2010 88.92
2011 88.95
2012 81.57
2013 83.64
2014 80.81
2015 79.77
2016 78.99
2017 80.56
2018 80.99
2019 78.18
2020 76.60

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