Developing countries’ and least developed countries’ share of global merchandise imports (%) by country

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

• World 100.0%
• Developed regions (Europe, Cyprus, Israel, Northern America, Japan, Australia & New Zealand) 55.7%
• Europe and Northern America 50.9%
• Developing regions 44.3%
• Asia 38.7%
• Europe 35.0%
• Eastern and South-Eastern Asia 28.1%
• Americas 21.9%
• Eastern Asia 20.6%
• Western Europe 16.6%
• Northern America 15.9%
• United States of America 13.6%
• South-eastern Asia 7.6%
• Northern Africa and Western Asia 7.3%
• Western Asia 6.3%
• Northern Europe 6.3%
• Southern Europe 6.1%
• Eastern Europe 6.0%
• Latin America and the Caribbean 6.0%
• Central and Southern Asia 4.3%
• Southern Asia 3.8%
• Central America 3.1%
• Africa 2.9%
• China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region 2.8%
• South America 2.6%
• Small Island Developing States (SIDS) 2.3%
• Sub-Saharan Africa 1.9%
• Other non-specified areas in Eastern Asia 1.6%
• Oceania 1.5%
• Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 1.4%
• Landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) 1.4%
• Northern Africa 1.0%
• Southern Africa 0.6%
• Eastern Africa 0.5%
• Western Africa 0.5%
• Central Asia 0.5%
• Middle Africa 0.3%
• Oceania (exc. Australia and New Zealand) 0.1%
• China, Macao Special Administrative Region 0.1%