Economy > Trade > Exports Stats: compare key data on China & North Korea
Definitions
- Commodities: A rank ordering of exported products starting with the most important; it sometimes includes the percent of total dollar value.
- Leading export market: Country or customs union which is the main recipient of exports.
- Merchandise exports by the reporting economy > Current US$ per capita: Merchandise exports by the reporting economy (current US$). Merchandise exports by the reporting economy are the total merchandise exports by the reporting economy to the rest of the world, as reported in the IMF's Direction of trade database. Data are in current US$. Figures expressed per capita for the same year.
- Merchandise exports to developing economies in South Asia > % of total merchandise exports: Merchandise exports to developing economies in South Asia (% of total merchandise exports). Merchandise exports to developing economies in South Asia are the sum of merchandise exports from the reporting economy to developing economies in the South Asia region according to World Bank classification of economies. Data are as a percentage of total merchandise exports by the economy. Data are computed only if at least half of the economies in the partner country group had non-missing data.
- Merchandise exports to developing economies within region > % of total merchandise exports: Merchandise exports to developing economies within region (% of total merchandise exports). Merchandise exports to developing economies within region are the sum of merchandise exports from the reporting economy to other developing economies in the same World Bank region as a percentage of total merchandise exports by the economy. Data are computed only if at least half of the economies in the partner country group had non-missing data. No figures are shown for high-income economies, because they are a separate category in the World Bank classification of economies.
- Partners: A rank ordering of trading partners starting with the most important; it sometimes includes the percent of total dollar value
- Per $ GDP: The total US dollar amount of exports on an f.o.b. (free on board) basis. Per $ GDP figures expressed per 1 $ gross domestic product.
- Per capita: The total US dollar amount of exports on an f.o.b. (free on board) basis. Per capita figures expressed per 1 population.
SOURCES: CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; World Trade Organization Trade Profiles database, loaded 2010; World Bank staff estimates. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; World Bank staff estimates