Lebanon - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Lebanon was 19.78 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 53 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 32.91 in 2017 and a minimum value of 13.92 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 through the WITS platform from the Comtrade database maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division.

See also:

Year Value
1967 30.37
1968 27.11
1969 23.95
1970 25.07
1971 23.54
1972 20.10
1973 18.23
1977 22.09
1997 19.42
1998 19.67
1999 19.28
2000 17.77
2001 16.95
2002 18.72
2003 18.08
2004 15.51
2005 14.84
2006 15.00
2007 16.08
2008 13.92
2009 14.92
2010 15.58
2011 15.44
2012 15.27
2013 15.82
2014 17.28
2015 17.58
2016 17.14
2017 32.91
2018 17.18
2019 15.89
2020 19.78

Limitations and Exceptions: Previous editions contained data based on the SITC revision 1. Data for earlier years in previous editions may differ because of the change in methodology. Concordance tables are available to convert data reported in one system to another.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The classification of commodity groups is based on the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) revision 3.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Merchandise import shares may not sum to 100 percent because of unclassified trade.

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports