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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Yemen was 48.62 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 30 years was 73.00 in 1999, while its lowest value was 40.72 in 2014.

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
1990 65.62
1991 62.86
1992 68.19
1993 67.60
1994 71.08
1995 68.23
1996 64.68
1997 69.78
1998 70.93
1999 73.00
2000 70.83
2001 66.88
2002 68.26
2003 68.96
2004 70.59
2005 70.26
2006 63.68
2007 59.62
2008 63.86
2009 59.94
2010 58.20
2011 64.13
2012 60.24
2013 61.51
2014 40.72
2015 52.99
2016 50.08
2017 47.68
2018 49.18
2019 49.21
2020 48.62

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