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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in The Bahamas was 84.57 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 58 years was 97.50 in 2010, while its lowest value was 37.32 in 1985.

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
1962 89.07
1963 92.15
1964 90.97
1966 92.26
1967 95.54
1968 95.10
1969 95.32
1970 85.32
1971 47.16
1972 49.62
1973 40.74
1974 44.02
1975 50.70
1976 60.33
1977 47.57
1978 42.70
1979 45.35
1981 51.98
1982 65.84
1983 45.35
1984 37.37
1985 37.32
1986 49.17
1987 66.57
1988 72.60
1989 80.04
1990 88.93
1991 89.39
1992 85.72
1993 92.68
1994 88.26
1995 79.28
1996 83.46
1997 95.70
1998 91.16
1999 91.78
2000 93.81
2001 89.35
2002 94.53
2003 93.46
2004 92.42
2005 91.14
2006 93.31
2007 93.69
2008 88.93
2009 95.52
2010 97.50
2011 97.01
2012 93.97
2013 94.91
2014 94.93
2015 84.59
2016 92.97
2017 92.20
2018 89.88
2019 88.98
2020 84.57

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