Zambia - Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports)

Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports) in Zambia was 59.55 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 56 years was 93.32 in 1968, while its lowest value was 32.01 in 1999.

Definition: Merchandise exports to high-income economies are the sum of merchandise exports from the reporting economy to high-income economies 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.

See also:

Year Value
1964 82.49
1965 86.82
1966 88.44
1967 88.03
1968 93.32
1969 92.96
1970 86.52
1971 76.63
1972 80.32
1973 82.57
1974 81.92
1975 83.79
1976 83.76
1977 85.16
1978 80.71
1979 78.87
1980 80.36
1981 74.35
1982 72.52
1983 72.52
1984 63.49
1985 65.37
1986 59.93
1987 59.45
1988 74.39
1989 69.32
1990 66.19
1991 51.46
1992 64.61
1993 60.16
1994 47.98
1995 53.61
1996 39.33
1997 60.58
1998 59.34
1999 32.01
2000 49.90
2001 64.75
2002 60.01
2003 48.47
2004 47.32
2005 53.60
2006 53.81
2007 57.50
2008 63.00
2009 60.88
2010 59.21
2011 60.29
2012 51.46
2013 46.92
2014 58.82
2015 59.27
2016 58.44
2017 59.82
2018 59.85
2019 55.62
2020 59.55

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. At the regional level most exports from low- and middle-income economies are to high-income economies, but the share of intraregional trade is increasing. Geographic patterns of trade vary widely by country and commodity. Larger shares of exports from oil- and resource-rich economies are to 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: Exports