New Zealand - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in New Zealand was 10.58 as of 2010. As the graph below shows, over the past 46 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 10.69 in 2009 and a minimum value of 5.79 in 1981.

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
1964 8.89
1965 7.66
1966 6.62
1967 7.02
1968 7.43
1969 6.52
1970 6.90
1971 7.06
1972 7.19
1973 7.29
1974 7.07
1975 7.26
1976 6.23
1977 6.73
1978 7.02
1979 6.20
1980 5.98
1981 5.79
1982 6.72
1983 6.29
1984 6.49
1985 6.22
1986 6.47
1987 6.72
1988 7.70
1989 7.45
1990 6.78
1991 7.82
1992 7.26
1993 7.74
1994 7.51
1995 7.41
1996 7.61
1997 7.77
1998 9.20
1999 7.78
2000 7.72
2001 8.34
2002 8.55
2003 8.15
2004 7.58
2005 7.64
2006 8.09
2007 8.57
2008 9.36
2009 10.69
2010 10.58

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports