Syrian Arab Republic - Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports)

Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports) in Syrian Arab Republic was 34.50 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 82.29 in 1981, while its lowest value was 21.66 in 2012.

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 36.92
1961 43.35
1962 54.96
1963 48.65
1964 37.59
1965 43.21
1966 42.12
1967 41.82
1968 39.28
1969 38.81
1970 46.30
1971 48.29
1972 38.53
1973 43.58
1974 52.89
1975 49.81
1976 58.85
1977 61.36
1978 66.74
1979 78.46
1980 81.69
1981 82.29
1982 74.14
1983 71.84
1984 74.64
1985 74.38
1986 53.51
1987 62.38
1988 51.15
1989 48.41
1990 52.47
1991 59.55
1992 74.38
1993 74.67
1994 73.42
1995 70.57
1996 36.66
1997 33.01
1998 65.82
1999 76.53
2000 79.26
2001 80.21
2002 80.71
2003 75.89
2004 64.12
2005 58.89
2006 52.53
2007 56.70
2008 46.27
2009 41.25
2010 47.47
2011 50.22
2012 21.66
2013 22.47
2014 27.67
2015 29.09
2016 28.10
2017 25.47
2018 34.50
2019 34.50
2020 34.50

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