Tonga - Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports)

Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports) in Tonga was 83.10 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 41 years was 99.66 in 2000, while its lowest value was 73.10 in 1988.

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
1979 85.16
1980 93.69
1981 89.47
1982 93.38
1983 96.11
1984 98.78
1985 88.88
1986 90.43
1987 87.57
1988 73.10
1989 92.94
1990 92.37
1991 89.98
1992 92.13
1993 95.74
1994 88.29
1995 87.11
1996 89.64
1997 74.45
1998 74.27
1999 95.59
2000 99.66
2001 99.17
2002 99.36
2003 98.71
2004 99.10
2005 99.08
2006 98.94
2007 98.73
2008 96.60
2009 98.65
2010 98.71
2011 98.37
2012 96.23
2013 96.00
2014 96.76
2015 97.11
2016 97.11
2017 97.11
2018 93.56
2019 82.29
2020 83.10

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