Afghanistan - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Afghanistan was 26.92 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 36.79 in 2017 and a minimum value of 4.28 in 2012.

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 7.84
1963 13.12
1964 17.34
1965 17.10
1966 20.80
1967 20.88
1968 16.01
1969 20.58
1970 20.54
1971 25.43
1972 28.46
1973 23.87
1974 22.88
1975 24.42
1976 16.32
1977 15.35
2008 17.37
2009 18.29
2010 13.69
2011 14.03
2012 4.28
2013 7.55
2014 9.51
2015 19.23
2016 23.56
2017 36.79
2018 34.03
2019 26.92

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports