Cambodia: Merchandise imports from economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise imports)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2021, Cambodia's merchandise imports from economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise imports) fell 0.01 percentage points on 2020 (from 0.28% to 0.27%).

Across the 28 yearly changes before that (1964 to 2020), the average change was +0.05 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.82 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 standard deviations below 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 3.86 percentage points in 1989 and the biggest yearly fall was 1.69 percentage points in 1990. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2012 to 2021 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains less than 1% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

How it compares

See how every economy compares in the full ranking.

Closest to Cambodia in the 2021 ranking

• Tuvalu — 2nd of 3: 0.12%
• Solomon Islands — 3rd of 3: 0.0000112%

What this measures

Merchandise imports from economies in the Arab World are the sum of merchandise imports by the reporting economy from economies in the Arab World. 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.

All 37 values

Merchandise imports from economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise imports) in nearby economies

• American Samoa — 0.00000192% (2023)
• Australia — 1.12% (2023)
• Brunei Darussalam — 15.39% (2023)
• China — 8.82% (2023)
• Fiji — 0.25% (2017)
• French Polynesia — 0.25% (2023)
• Hong Kong SAR, China — 2.6% (2023)
• Indonesia

More private sector & trade data for Cambodia

• Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$33.89 billion (2025)
• Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$31.27 billion (2025)
• Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports) — 73.41% (2023)
• Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies in East Asia & Pacific (% of total merchandise exports) — 24.56% (2023)
• Merchandise exports by the reporting economy, residual (% of total merchandise exports) — 0% (2023)
• Merchandise exports by the reporting economy (current US$) — US$22.04 billion (2023)
• Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies within region (% of total merchandise exports) — 24.56% (2023)

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Questions people ask

What is Cambodia's merchandise imports from economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise imports)?

0.27% in 2021, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1960?

It is up 0.16 percentage points from 0.11% in 1960. The highest value was 5.27% in 1989 and the lowest 0.00156% in 1994.

Is the latest change in merchandise imports from economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise imports) unusual for Cambodia?

In 2021, Cambodia's merchandise imports from economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise imports) fell 0.01 percentage points on 2020 (from 0.28% to 0.27%). Across the 28 yearly changes before that (1964 to 2020), the average change was +0.05 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.82 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator TM.VAL.MRCH.AL.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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