Private Sector & Trade · Bulgaria
Bulgaria: Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in Latin America & the Caribbean (% of total merchandise imports)
Yearly data from 1981 to 2023, from the World Bank.
Private Sector & Trade · Bulgaria
Yearly data from 1981 to 2023, from the World Bank.
Bulgaria's merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in Latin America & the Caribbean (% of total merchandise imports) was 1.64% in 2023, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 1.19 percentage points from 0.45% in 2013.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 1.64% | 2023 |
| Five years earlier | 0.6% | 2018 |
| Ten years earlier | 0.45% | 2013 |
| Highest | 8.54% | 1984 |
| Lowest | 0.45% | 2013 |
| Average since 2014 | 0.97% | 2014–2023 |
| First recorded | 1% | 1981 |
Over five years it is up 1.04 percentage points from 0.6% in 2018. Since 1981 it is up 0.64 percentage points from 1% in 1981.
In 2023, Bulgaria's merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in Latin America & the Caribbean (% of total merchandise imports) rose 0.27 percentage points on 2022 (from 1.37% to 1.64%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1993 to 2022), the average change was −0.03 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.7 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.4 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 4.57 percentage points in 1984 and the biggest yearly fall was 4.41 percentage points in 1985. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2014 to 2023 the straight-line trend is upward, about 0.16 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 73% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
In 2023, Bulgaria had the 109th highest value of the 197 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Bulgaria | 1.64% | 2023 |
| World | 5.8% | 2023 |
| Europe & Central Asia | 1.76% | 2023 |
| High income | 5.73% | 2023 |
Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in Latin America and the Caribbean are the sum of merchandise imports by the reporting economy from low- and middle-income economies in the Latin America and the Caribbean region 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.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
| Year | Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in Latin America & the Caribbean (% of total merchandise imports) |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.64 |
| 2022 | 1.37 |
| 2021 | 1.74 |
| 2020 | 1.75 |
| 2019 | 0.658 |
| 2018 | 0.6049 |
| 2017 | 0.4884 |
| 2016 | 0.5093 |
| 2015 | 0.4559 |
| 2014 | 0.4772 |
| 2013 | 0.4516 |
| 2012 | 1.18 |
| 2011 | 0.9296 |
| 2010 | 2.01 |
| 2009 | 1.81 |
| 2008 | 1.54 |
| 2007 | 1.65 |
| 2006 | 4.05 |
| 2005 | 3.47 |
| 2004 | 2.58 |
| 2003 | 2.09 |
| 2002 | 2.07 |
| 2001 | 1.78 |
| 2000 | 1.9 |
| 1999 | 1.83 |
| 1998 | 2.56 |
| 1997 | 3.07 |
| 1996 | 2.55 |
| 1995 | 3.02 |
| 1994 | 1.7 |
| 1993 | 1.49 |
| 1992 | 2.23 |
| 1991 | 1.01 |
| 1990 | 2.88 |
| 1989 | 4.09 |
| 1988 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 6.24 |
| 1986 | 3.03 |
| 1985 | 4.14 |
| 1984 | 8.54 |
| 1983 | 3.97 |
| 1982 | 1.82 |
| 1981 | 0.9974 |
Every indicator for Bulgaria is on the Bulgaria data page.
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator TM.VAL.MRCH.R3.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Staff estimates, World Bank (WB); Direction of Trade database, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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