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

Key figures

Over five years it is up 0.05 percentage points from 0.08% in 2016. Since 2001 it is down 0.08 percentage points from 0.2% in 2001. The World Bank has no value for 7 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

What the numbers say

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 0.2 percentage points in 2004 and the biggest yearly fall was 0.21 percentage points in 2005. 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 the straight-line trend is upward, about 0.02 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 72% of the movement over 8 observed years.

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 Tuvalu in the 2021 ranking

• Cambodia — 1st of 3: 0.27%
• 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 14 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)
• Cambodia — 0.27% (2021)
• China — 8.82% (2023)
• Fiji — 0.25% (2017)
• French Polynesia — 0.25% (2023)
• Hong Kong SAR, China

More private sector & trade data for Tuvalu

• Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 47.08% (2025)
• Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$27 million (2025)
• Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$0 (2025)
• International tourism, number of arrivals — 3,600 (2019)
• Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) — 92.75% (2023)
• Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports) — 0.96% (2023)
• Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in East Asia & Pacific (% of total merchandise imports) — 6.29% (2023)
• Merchandise imports by the reporting economy, residual (% of total merchandise imports)

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Questions people ask

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

0.12% in 2021, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 2001?

It is down 0.08 percentage points from 0.2% in 2001. The highest value was 0.22% in 2004 and the lowest 0.00306% in 2015.

Where does this data come from?

The World Bank's World Development Indicators, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Staff estimates, World Bank (WB); Direction of Trade database, International Monetary Fund (IMF).

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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