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East Germany: Imports

Millions of local currency · 1949–1989 · 41 observations · imports

1989
145 billionlocal currency
Change on 1988
+2.1%year on year
Average growth, 1979–1989
+4.7%a year
In US dollars, 1989
$76.9 billionUS dollars

Imports

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
1989144,710
1988141,699
1987140,724
1986147,062
1985140,887
1984135,687
1983123,824
1982113,587
1981108,874
1980102,374

Sources

  • Mitchell1949–1988
  • COMECON1949–1989

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East Germany documentation (PDF)

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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