Togo - 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 Togo was 21.00 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 58 years was 36.04 in 1996, while its lowest value was 0.00 in 1976.

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
1962 4.68
1963 5.52
1964 0.67
1965 0.74
1966 1.94
1967 1.57
1968 1.83
1969 0.02
1970 0.15
1971 0.85
1972 1.11
1973 2.58
1974 4.39
1975 0.24
1976 0.00
1977 0.01
1978 1.60
1979 1.12
1980 2.03
1981 0.98
1982 5.78
1983 4.54
1984 5.85
1985 4.61
1986 3.02
1987 5.29
1988 8.18
1989 13.85
1990 18.19
1991 22.89
1992 11.82
1993 13.13
1994 10.30
1995 25.86
1996 36.04
1997 31.46
1998 25.82
1999 29.88
2000 29.28
2001 13.46
2002 11.98
2003 14.48
2004 16.45
2005 14.96
2006 13.74
2007 18.87
2008 18.23
2009 16.27
2010 15.42
2011 14.88
2012 8.29
2013 14.11
2014 21.52
2015 19.64
2016 14.15
2017 14.73
2018 16.61
2019 20.15
2020 21.00

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