United States - Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in Latin America & the Caribbean (% of total merchandise imports)

Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in Latin America & the Caribbean (% of total merchandise imports) in United States was 17.19 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 17.99 in 2019, while its lowest value was 7.79 in 1976.

Definition: Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in Latin America and the Caribbean are the sum of merchandise imports by the reporting economy from low- and middle-income economies in the Latin America and the Caribbean region 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 16.62
1961 15.28
1962 14.59
1963 14.57
1964 13.52
1965 12.13
1966 11.28
1967 10.68
1968 9.86
1969 9.08
1970 9.32
1971 8.26
1972 8.31
1973 8.81
1974 8.80
1975 8.48
1976 7.79
1977 8.11
1978 8.46
1979 9.22
1980 9.91
1981 10.00
1982 11.07
1983 11.40
1984 10.64
1985 10.29
1986 8.98
1987 9.26
1988 9.66
1989 9.93
1990 10.24
1991 10.33
1992 10.58
1993 10.70
1994 11.25
1995 12.03
1996 13.02
1997 13.78
1998 14.21
1999 14.52
2000 14.77
2001 15.17
2002 15.36
2003 14.84
2004 14.48
2005 14.16
2006 14.48
2007 14.32
2008 14.24
2009 15.41
2010 16.12
2011 16.77
2012 17.12
2013 17.10
2014 16.90
2015 16.93
2016 17.24
2017 17.15
2018 17.26
2019 17.99
2020 17.19

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports