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

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Zimbabwe was 12.27 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 56 years was 68.22 in 1966, while its lowest value was 11.84 in 2016.

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
1964 55.00
1965 62.26
1966 68.22
1981 47.79
1982 56.78
1983 50.03
1984 51.02
1985 48.82
1986 55.13
1987 55.14
1988 59.44
1989 51.58
1990 49.81
1991 55.29
1992 48.39
1993 49.88
1994 47.50
1995 43.54
1996 30.22
1997 42.09
1998 46.45
1999 39.46
2000 33.74
2001 21.18
2002 27.77
2003 17.66
2004 19.46
2005 18.76
2006 15.84
2007 17.98
2008 13.77
2009 13.86
2010 13.67
2011 14.43
2012 14.55
2013 14.46
2014 13.92
2015 13.27
2016 11.84
2017 13.23
2018 13.74
2019 12.71
2020 12.27

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