Turkey - Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports)

Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports) in Turkey was 26.60 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 37.63 in 1982, while its lowest value was 2.07 in 1960.

Definition: Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region are the sum of merchandise imports by the reporting economy from 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 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 2.07
1961 2.52
1962 5.51
1963 6.46
1964 5.59
1965 4.34
1966 4.38
1967 5.68
1968 6.88
1969 6.97
1970 7.02
1971 7.18
1972 6.62
1973 7.96
1974 12.94
1975 16.92
1976 22.38
1977 22.62
1978 25.96
1979 21.32
1980 37.15
1981 35.61
1982 37.63
1983 36.91
1984 35.48
1985 33.91
1986 19.32
1987 23.90
1988 22.05
1989 22.57
1990 18.28
1991 8.88
1992 8.22
1993 5.21
1994 11.98
1995 13.23
1996 12.69
1997 12.16
1998 11.08
1999 12.04
2000 13.47
2001 15.90
2002 14.83
2003 16.72
2004 17.23
2005 19.81
2006 22.02
2007 22.17
2008 22.58
2009 22.86
2010 25.00
2011 25.27
2012 24.13
2013 23.89
2014 25.33
2015 25.86
2016 27.20
2017 26.76
2018 26.20
2019 24.32
2020 26.60

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: Imports