Niger - Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports)

Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports) in Niger was 47.81 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 51.91 in 2010, while its lowest value was 2.55 in 1977.

Definition: Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region are the sum of merchandise imports by the reporting economy from 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 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
1960 4.41
1963 3.56
1964 5.85
1965 9.95
1966 8.44
1967 7.69
1968 5.40
1969 5.21
1970 5.24
1971 4.09
1972 5.80
1973 5.99
1974 8.08
1975 10.55
1976 8.98
1977 2.55
1978 3.51
1979 4.51
1980 6.14
1981 16.30
1982 10.62
1983 5.09
1984 10.19
1985 10.80
1986 8.20
1987 7.28
1988 7.65
1989 7.79
1990 7.42
1991 8.23
1992 9.89
1993 8.73
1994 7.82
1995 8.25
1996 13.26
1997 16.19
1998 15.76
1999 19.19
2000 5.60
2001 18.69
2002 24.17
2003 24.19
2004 20.79
2005 28.48
2006 29.79
2007 22.18
2008 33.36
2009 44.81
2010 51.91
2011 37.67
2012 40.58
2013 45.69
2014 40.88
2015 36.38
2016 33.40
2017 37.12
2018 41.64
2019 51.09
2020 47.81

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: Imports