Zambia - 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 Zambia was 19.38 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 56 years was 33.45 in 1994, while its lowest value was 0.30 in 1965.

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
1964 2.27
1965 0.30
1966 0.57
1967 3.03
1968 2.35
1969 4.57
1970 9.77
1971 13.86
1972 13.02
1973 12.05
1974 9.42
1975 6.38
1976 8.19
1977 5.91
1978 9.98
1979 12.09
1980 9.93
1981 16.05
1982 16.06
1983 16.06
1984 22.70
1985 22.30
1986 25.46
1987 25.80
1988 14.65
1989 14.44
1990 20.25
1991 23.38
1992 20.05
1993 27.28
1994 33.45
1995 26.74
1996 31.98
1997 25.79
1998 13.26
1999 12.18
2000 1.76
2001 4.20
2002 4.30
2003 6.40
2004 3.57
2005 22.15
2006 26.23
2007 18.42
2008 16.67
2009 16.51
2010 21.74
2011 17.92
2012 20.18
2013 22.58
2014 9.04
2015 15.26
2016 19.71
2017 18.30
2018 16.55
2019 21.43
2020 19.38

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