Azerbaijan - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Azerbaijan was 18.52 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 25 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 39.10 in 1996 and a minimum value of 10.46 in 2006.

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
1996 39.10
1997 22.62
1998 16.20
1999 19.74
2000 18.58
2001 16.16
2002 14.15
2003 11.75
2004 11.70
2005 10.48
2006 10.46
2007 15.81
2008 15.61
2009 15.73
2010 18.54
2011 14.10
2012 14.60
2013 14.44
2014 16.74
2015 14.67
2016 18.27
2017 18.99
2018 14.49
2019 13.79
2020 17.35
2021 18.52

Limitations and Exceptions: Previous editions contained data based on the SITC revision 1. Data for earlier years in previous editions may differ because of the change in methodology. Concordance tables are available to convert data reported in one system to another.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The classification of commodity groups is based on the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) revision 3.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Merchandise import shares may not sum to 100 percent because of unclassified trade.

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports