Algeria - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Algeria was 20.23 as of 2017. As the graph below shows, over the past 51 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 33.04 in 1994 and a minimum value of 12.74 in 1970.

Definition: Food comprises the commodities in SITC sections 0 (food and live animals), 1 (beverages and tobacco), and 4 (animal and vegetable oils and fats) and SITC division 22 (oil seeds, oil nuts, and oil kernels).

Source: World Bank staff estimates through the WITS platform from the Comtrade database maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division.

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Year Value
1966 25.78
1968 19.30
1969 15.71
1970 12.74
1971 15.63
1973 16.09
1974 19.82
1975 21.70
1976 17.74
1977 17.18
1978 16.61
1979 18.52
1980 20.96
1981 20.74
1982 20.69
1983 21.22
1984 19.20
1985 25.42
1986 21.95
1987 27.35
1992 28.51
1993 27.36
1994 33.04
1995 29.45
1996 31.26
1997 31.82
1998 29.87
1999 27.42
2000 28.17
2001 26.14
2002 25.08
2003 22.42
2004 21.91
2005 19.33
2006 19.21
2007 19.83
2008 21.43
2009 16.34
2010 16.30
2011 22.79
2012 19.85
2013 19.06
2014 20.10
2015 19.32
2016 19.03
2017 20.23

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports