Egypt - Food imports
Food imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Egypt was 19.08 as of 2010. As the graph below shows, over the past 45 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 44.27 in 1974 and a minimum value of 17.17 in 2009.
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 |
|---|---|
| 1965 | 28.48 |
| 1966 | 28.58 |
| 1967 | 41.99 |
| 1968 | 33.96 |
| 1969 | 26.14 |
| 1970 | 23.22 |
| 1971 | 29.57 |
| 1972 | 28.67 |
| 1973 | 31.67 |
| 1974 | 44.27 |
| 1975 | 35.92 |
| 1976 | 28.32 |
| 1977 | 23.12 |
| 1978 | 25.85 |
| 1979 | 26.17 |
| 1980 | 32.39 |
| 1981 | 34.20 |
| 1982 | 30.77 |
| 1983 | 25.54 |
| 1984 | 27.68 |
| 1985 | 27.08 |
| 1986 | 30.02 |
| 1987 | 27.33 |
| 1988 | 26.52 |
| 1989 | 31.80 |
| 1990 | 31.54 |
| 1991 | 25.26 |
| 1992 | 29.39 |
| 1993 | 23.90 |
| 1994 | 27.50 |
| 1995 | 28.38 |
| 1996 | 29.47 |
| 1997 | 26.42 |
| 1998 | 21.25 |
| 1999 | 22.84 |
| 2000 | 25.13 |
| 2001 | 25.89 |
| 2002 | 27.68 |
| 2003 | 24.92 |
| 2004 | 22.48 |
| 2005 | 20.06 |
| 2006 | 18.96 |
| 2007 | 20.32 |
| 2008 | 17.18 |
| 2009 | 17.17 |
| 2010 | 19.08 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
