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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Uganda was 27.25 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 82.45 in 1965, while its lowest value was 27.25 in 2020.

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
1960 77.31
1961 78.35
1962 80.00
1963 77.91
1964 81.29
1965 82.45
1966 79.33
1967 81.65
1968 62.27
1969 61.00
1970 58.78
1971 66.72
1972 57.10
1973 47.53
1974 50.54
1975 50.70
1976 43.01
1977 33.19
1978 56.46
1979 50.24
1980 52.70
1981 46.86
1982 53.89
1983 46.05
1984 53.49
1985 55.07
1986 47.02
1987 57.93
1988 52.28
1989 64.46
1990 54.31
1991 67.48
1992 63.36
1993 56.68
1994 47.52
1995 48.16
1996 44.97
1997 46.62
1998 44.12
1999 40.19
2000 44.83
2001 46.29
2002 45.86
2003 44.87
2004 44.07
2005 44.79
2006 53.93
2007 52.08
2008 50.79
2009 48.65
2010 45.84
2011 44.20
2012 37.39
2013 35.55
2014 34.72
2015 35.61
2016 36.60
2017 39.34
2018 38.80
2019 33.29
2020 27.25

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