Jordan - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Jordan was 23.85 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 56 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 31.47 in 1972 and a minimum value of 13.31 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 through the WITS platform from the Comtrade database maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division.

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Year Value
1964 29.43
1965 29.75
1966 30.00
1967 29.93
1968 31.20
1969 29.42
1970 31.04
1971 30.20
1972 31.47
1973 31.46
1974 29.17
1975 22.40
1976 25.83
1977 18.27
1978 21.35
1979 20.16
1980 18.16
1981 17.08
1982 18.22
1983 17.71
1984 19.73
1985 18.81
1986 21.78
1987 18.99
1989 16.91
1990 25.82
1991 26.81
1992 21.22
1993 20.17
1994 21.66
1995 20.59
1997 23.53
1998 23.10
1999 21.81
2000 18.74
2001 17.60
2002 16.86
2003 17.65
2004 17.02
2005 13.62
2006 13.31
2007 15.00
2008 16.65
2009 17.02
2010 16.23
2011 16.11
2012 17.39
2013 17.13
2014 17.77
2015 18.95
2016 21.10
2017 18.67
2018 18.91
2019 19.52
2020 23.85

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports