Switzerland - Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports)

Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports) in Switzerland was 81.68 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 91.00 in 1999, while its lowest value was 75.10 in 2013.

Definition: Merchandise exports to high-income economies are the sum of merchandise exports from the reporting economy to high-income economies 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 77.35
1961 78.62
1962 80.03
1963 80.33
1964 80.38
1965 80.43
1966 80.54
1967 81.85
1968 80.56
1969 81.29
1970 80.56
1971 81.23
1972 81.17
1973 81.14
1974 79.30
1975 76.48
1976 78.25
1977 78.30
1978 79.44
1979 80.05
1980 80.06
1981 79.06
1982 79.17
1983 81.58
1984 83.35
1985 83.40
1986 83.62
1987 84.45
1988 84.90
1989 85.57
1990 86.62
1991 87.06
1992 87.06
1993 87.01
1994 87.30
1995 87.09
1996 86.65
1997 86.74
1998 87.86
1999 91.00
2000 90.36
2001 89.97
2002 89.57
2003 89.23
2004 88.19
2005 88.23
2006 87.49
2007 86.57
2008 86.01
2009 86.06
2010 85.05
2011 84.30
2012 77.09
2013 75.10
2014 77.38
2015 76.87
2016 78.74
2017 75.15
2018 75.42
2019 79.11
2020 81.68

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. At the regional level most exports from low- and middle-income economies are to high-income economies, but the share of intraregional trade is increasing. Geographic patterns of trade vary widely by country and commodity. Larger shares of exports from oil- and resource-rich economies are to 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: Exports