Bangladesh - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Bangladesh was 16.56 as of 2015. As the graph below shows, over the past 38 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 28.99 in 1984 and a minimum value of 13.90 in 2005.

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
1977 17.61
1978 20.59
1979 25.31
1980 23.63
1981 20.19
1982 25.97
1983 19.96
1984 28.99
1985 24.25
1986 20.87
1987 24.19
1989 24.14
1990 18.96
1991 17.34
1992 18.27
1993 15.93
1995 17.30
1996 17.03
1997 16.86
1998 15.29
2000 16.48
2001 17.39
2002 14.60
2003 19.19
2004 15.61
2005 13.90
2006 16.70
2007 22.46
2008 18.32
2009 18.68
2010 17.42
2011 19.49
2012 14.47
2013 16.87
2015 16.56

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports