TABLE 1.2 South Asian Intraregional Goods Exports and Imports, 2018 (US$ millions) Destination (importer) Exporter (source) ↓
AFG
AFG BGD
BGD
BTN
0.11 3
BTN
4
726
8,789
MDV
0.13
3
MDV
315
7
IND
IND
NPL
PAK
0.01
202
LKA
WLD
72
517
716
932
31,448
3
513
541
95
793
43
69
490
15
0.12
7,225
2,386
4,442
24,434
320,142
8
0
22
33
205
16
0.29
0.10
428
757
57
367
2,730
23,193
12
647
218 8
NPL
0.00
11
1
416
0
PAK
1,232
746
0
377
6
2
20
SAR
South Asia Region as export market (%)↓
0
129
0.01
748
107
9
79
1,074
11,308
9
SAR
1,962
9,686
652
3,147
331
7,293
2,737
4,852
30,661
388,310
7.9
WLD
8,268
58,169
766
489,750
2,464
9,993
62,739
21,166
653,315
19,180,641
23.7
16.7
85.2
0.6
13.4
73.0
4.4
22.9
4.7
SAR as import source (%) →
Source: Direction of Trade Statistics, International Monetary Fund. Note: This table should be read as, for example, Afghanistan’s exports to India are valued at US$315 million, while the country’s total exports are US$716 million. Exports to South Asia are worth US$517 million, which constitutes 72 percent of its total exports. Afghanistan imports goods with a total value of US$8,268 million, of which US$1,962 comes from South Asia. This amounts to 23.7 percent of Afghanistan’s imports. Numbers in bold are trade relationships of more than US$1 billion. AFG = Afghanistan; BGD = Bangladesh; BTN = Bhutan; IND = India; LKA = Sri Lanka; MDV = Maldives; NPL = Nepal; PAK = Pakistan; WLD = world.
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