Bahrain - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Bahrain was 9.75 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 49 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 20.36 in 1970 and a minimum value of 5.16 in 2007.

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
1970 20.36
1971 12.03
1972 10.94
1973 11.22
1974 6.28
1975 6.43
1976 7.32
1977 6.68
1978 8.06
1979 14.96
1980 16.69
1981 12.75
1982 12.67
1983 12.81
1984 14.76
1985 15.54
1986 17.67
1987 16.84
1994 10.77
1995 12.27
1996 19.14
2000 9.70
2001 11.74
2002 10.94
2003 9.57
2004 8.11
2005 6.80
2006 5.72
2007 5.16
2008 6.30
2009 7.98
2010 7.61
2011 8.31
2012 10.79
2013 9.17
2014 9.42
2015 11.67
2016 11.92
2017 10.34
2018 9.25
2019 9.75

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports