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 |
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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