United States - Food imports
Food imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in United States was 6.61 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 23.55 in 1962 and a minimum value of 3.93 in 2000.
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 |
|---|---|
| 1962 | 23.55 |
| 1963 | 23.42 |
| 1964 | 22.28 |
| 1965 | 19.61 |
| 1966 | 18.74 |
| 1967 | 18.20 |
| 1968 | 16.91 |
| 1969 | 15.27 |
| 1970 | 16.12 |
| 1971 | 14.54 |
| 1972 | 13.68 |
| 1973 | 13.76 |
| 1974 | 11.18 |
| 1975 | 10.84 |
| 1976 | 10.18 |
| 1977 | 9.93 |
| 1978 | 9.62 |
| 1979 | 9.18 |
| 1980 | 8.22 |
| 1981 | 7.71 |
| 1982 | 7.87 |
| 1983 | 7.85 |
| 1984 | 7.17 |
| 1985 | 7.03 |
| 1986 | 7.15 |
| 1987 | 6.48 |
| 1989 | 5.71 |
| 1990 | 5.81 |
| 1991 | 5.91 |
| 1992 | 5.72 |
| 1993 | 5.33 |
| 1994 | 5.04 |
| 1995 | 4.78 |
| 1996 | 4.92 |
| 1997 | 4.98 |
| 1998 | 4.88 |
| 1999 | 4.59 |
| 2000 | 3.93 |
| 2001 | 4.25 |
| 2002 | 4.60 |
| 2003 | 4.67 |
| 2004 | 4.37 |
| 2005 | 4.20 |
| 2006 | 4.18 |
| 2007 | 4.35 |
| 2008 | 4.40 |
| 2009 | 5.43 |
| 2010 | 4.95 |
| 2011 | 5.04 |
| 2012 | 4.90 |
| 2013 | 5.15 |
| 2014 | 5.52 |
| 2015 | 5.83 |
| 2016 | 6.12 |
| 2017 | 6.09 |
| 2018 | 5.96 |
| 2019 | 6.18 |
| 2020 | 6.77 |
| 2021 | 6.61 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
