Botswana - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Botswana was 12.36 as of 2010. As the graph below shows, over the past 10 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 15.49 in 2002 and a minimum value of 11.96 in 2008.

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 from the Comtrade database maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division.

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Year Value
2000 14.25
2001 13.94
2002 15.49
2003 13.86
2004 14.36
2005 13.81
2006 13.71
2007 13.12
2008 11.96
2009 13.06
2010 12.36

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports