Argentina - Food imports
Food imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Argentina was 8.77 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 9.24 in 1973 and a minimum value of 2.28 in 2013.
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 | 3.89 |
| 1963 | 4.14 |
| 1964 | 5.91 |
| 1965 | 6.51 |
| 1966 | 6.66 |
| 1967 | 6.58 |
| 1968 | 5.51 |
| 1969 | 6.82 |
| 1970 | 5.82 |
| 1971 | 5.05 |
| 1972 | 6.46 |
| 1973 | 9.24 |
| 1974 | 4.76 |
| 1975 | 4.56 |
| 1976 | 4.76 |
| 1977 | 5.28 |
| 1978 | 5.66 |
| 1979 | 7.14 |
| 1980 | 5.67 |
| 1981 | 4.99 |
| 1982 | 4.41 |
| 1983 | 3.86 |
| 1984 | 4.51 |
| 1985 | 4.72 |
| 1986 | 6.89 |
| 1987 | 4.56 |
| 1992 | 5.98 |
| 1993 | 5.45 |
| 1994 | 5.19 |
| 1995 | 5.47 |
| 1996 | 4.93 |
| 1997 | 5.32 |
| 1998 | 4.93 |
| 1999 | 4.92 |
| 2000 | 5.01 |
| 2001 | 5.72 |
| 2002 | 4.63 |
| 2003 | 4.20 |
| 2004 | 3.30 |
| 2005 | 2.84 |
| 2006 | 2.58 |
| 2007 | 3.70 |
| 2008 | 4.54 |
| 2009 | 3.77 |
| 2010 | 2.62 |
| 2011 | 2.40 |
| 2012 | 2.49 |
| 2013 | 2.28 |
| 2014 | 2.42 |
| 2015 | 2.64 |
| 2016 | 3.63 |
| 2017 | 4.18 |
| 2018 | 6.87 |
| 2019 | 6.49 |
| 2020 | 8.77 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
