Syrian Arab Republic - Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports)

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Syrian Arab Republic was 13.77 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 76.97 in 1977, while its lowest value was 12.27 in 2013.

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 64.10
1961 59.01
1962 64.47
1963 64.10
1964 58.73
1965 59.77
1966 58.06
1967 54.74
1968 49.79
1969 53.76
1970 53.27
1971 51.99
1972 51.56
1973 52.70
1974 58.30
1975 65.14
1976 76.81
1977 76.97
1978 64.71
1979 58.59
1980 59.79
1981 57.44
1982 51.31
1983 52.22
1984 45.30
1985 50.98
1986 57.29
1987 57.63
1988 64.54
1989 62.59
1990 62.70
1991 60.27
1992 61.27
1993 59.73
1994 58.72
1995 50.24
1996 50.11
1997 50.51
1998 50.20
1999 47.95
2000 54.88
2001 60.21
2002 57.33
2003 43.19
2004 43.51
2005 42.06
2006 41.88
2007 40.03
2008 34.67
2009 30.66
2010 37.22
2011 37.65
2012 33.03
2013 12.27
2014 13.44
2015 18.06
2016 16.98
2017 14.58
2018 13.30
2019 13.77
2020 13.77

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