United Arab Emirates - 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 United Arab Emirates was 38.67 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 49.35 in 2010, while its lowest value was 6.22 in 1977.

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
1976 6.29
1977 6.22
1978 7.22
1979 9.23
1980 9.81
1981 13.20
1982 11.07
1983 11.07
1984 11.07
1985 11.07
1986 13.68
1987 14.42
1988 15.76
1989 18.69
1990 17.08
1991 18.77
1992 19.15
1993 17.10
1994 18.68
1995 18.05
1996 17.31
1997 18.73
1998 21.12
1999 22.61
2000 22.95
2001 22.89
2002 24.42
2003 26.24
2004 29.73
2005 28.84
2006 32.16
2007 35.44
2008 38.89
2009 43.77
2010 49.35
2011 43.04
2012 42.33
2013 43.02
2014 41.99
2015 42.75
2016 41.49
2017 45.37
2018 39.70
2019 39.28
2020 38.67

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