Italy - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Italy was 9.18 as of 2010. As the graph below shows, over the past 48 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 24.45 in 1965 and a minimum value of 8.18 in 2006.

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
1962 16.93
1963 20.83
1964 20.97
1965 24.45
1966 23.57
1967 21.47
1968 21.35
1969 20.07
1970 19.05
1971 21.73
1972 22.62
1973 22.55
1974 17.10
1975 19.38
1976 17.23
1977 17.61
1978 17.50
1979 15.82
1980 13.13
1981 12.31
1982 13.92
1983 14.41
1984 13.08
1985 14.29
1986 15.07
1987 14.56
1988 13.73
1989 13.08
1990 12.23
1991 13.23
1992 12.84
1993 13.43
1994 12.73
1995 11.58
1996 11.79
1997 11.05
1998 10.75
1999 10.21
2000 8.61
2001 8.86
2002 9.17
2003 9.45
2004 9.06
2005 8.66
2006 8.18
2007 8.24
2008 8.48
2009 10.24
2010 9.18

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports