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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Tanzania was 41.12 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 85.40 in 1988, while its lowest value was 39.53 in 2016.

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 73.76
1961 78.77
1962 75.71
1963 76.33
1964 81.19
1965 79.63
1966 74.74
1967 76.91
1968 63.12
1969 62.13
1970 60.08
1971 55.23
1972 59.80
1973 56.52
1974 63.32
1975 69.11
1976 59.98
1977 69.45
1978 78.11
1979 72.28
1980 71.08
1981 72.62
1982 82.32
1983 71.97
1984 68.32
1985 74.30
1986 75.27
1987 80.96
1988 85.40
1989 83.09
1990 78.59
1991 74.27
1992 67.81
1993 69.96
1994 58.25
1995 53.22
1996 53.02
1997 60.51
1998 58.08
1999 57.92
2000 58.94
2001 59.63
2002 56.59
2003 56.51
2004 54.79
2005 59.02
2006 57.70
2007 58.80
2008 52.28
2009 51.70
2010 53.78
2011 52.33
2012 58.19
2013 49.11
2014 41.75
2015 66.00
2016 39.53
2017 59.09
2018 43.62
2019 45.14
2020 41.12

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