Tanzania - Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise exports)

Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise exports) in Tanzania was 20.99 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 37.93 in 2017, while its lowest value was 5.93 in 1961.

Definition: Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies outside region are the sum of merchandise exports from the reporting economy to other low- and middle-income economies in other World Bank regions 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 9.14
1961 5.93
1962 8.01
1963 10.75
1964 10.98
1965 17.34
1966 12.96
1967 12.11
1968 14.18
1969 13.99
1970 11.45
1971 17.58
1972 24.21
1973 21.46
1974 13.82
1975 17.47
1976 12.81
1977 10.85
1978 9.88
1979 12.65
1980 13.20
1981 20.43
1982 10.90
1983 11.24
1984 12.34
1985 12.36
1986 7.21
1987 13.71
1988 10.20
1989 16.33
1990 23.87
1991 16.11
1992 16.60
1993 21.62
1994 21.92
1995 21.88
1996 28.99
1997 25.52
1998 26.11
1999 24.06
2000 17.79
2001 14.06
2002 10.59
2003 9.70
2004 14.70
2005 14.90
2006 14.47
2007 15.83
2008 18.70
2009 23.06
2010 24.78
2011 20.71
2012 21.68
2013 26.85
2014 36.53
2015 32.63
2016 27.37
2017 37.93
2018 29.77
2019 32.69
2020 20.99

Development Relevance: Although global integration has increased, low- and middle-income economies still face trade barriers when accessing other markets.

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