Germany - 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 Germany was 19.83 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 20.83 in 2012, while its lowest value was 8.18 in 1989.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 17.64
1961 16.05
1962 14.28
1963 13.40
1964 13.31
1965 13.99
1966 14.16
1967 14.01
1968 12.87
1969 11.98
1970 11.69
1971 11.64
1972 10.91
1973 11.33
1974 14.06
1975 16.59
1976 15.27
1977 14.67
1978 14.40
1979 12.16
1980 13.13
1981 15.60
1982 14.09
1983 13.06
1984 11.97
1985 11.26
1986 9.79
1987 8.94
1988 8.54
1989 8.18
1990 8.45
1991 8.93
1992 9.39
1993 13.50
1994 12.44
1995 12.77
1996 12.78
1997 13.12
1998 11.93
1999 10.58
2000 10.88
2001 11.85
2002 12.32
2003 12.94
2004 13.85
2005 14.16
2006 15.21
2007 15.58
2008 16.80
2009 17.56
2010 19.34
2011 20.18
2012 20.83
2013 20.52
2014 19.69
2015 18.20
2016 18.34
2017 19.13
2018 19.16
2019 19.33
2020 19.83

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