Sierra Leone - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Sierra Leone was 22.53 as of 2002. As the graph below shows, over the past 39 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 32.72 in 2000 and a minimum value of 18.09 in 1964.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1963 21.75
1964 18.09
1972 22.33
1973 28.50
1974 25.59
1975 20.19
1976 21.98
1983 27.57
1984 20.73
2000 32.72
2002 22.53

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports