Belgium - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Belgium was 6.98 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 14.95 in 1967 and a minimum value of 6.98 in 2021.

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 13.78
1963 13.22
1964 13.45
1965 14.32
1966 13.72
1967 14.95
1968 13.32
1969 12.61
1970 13.08
1971 13.25
1972 13.27
1973 13.33
1974 11.61
1975 12.95
1976 12.83
1977 13.19
1978 12.84
1979 12.22
1980 11.12
1981 11.83
1982 12.47
1983 12.13
1984 12.34
1985 11.73
1986 11.72
1987 11.32
1999 9.92
2000 8.43
2001 8.67
2002 8.57
2003 8.75
2004 8.17
2005 7.67
2006 7.36
2007 7.69
2008 8.15
2009 9.25
2010 9.78
2011 9.61
2012 10.00
2013 10.24
2014 10.38
2015 10.99
2016 10.74
2017 10.36
2018 9.71
2019 9.69
2020 10.78
2021 6.98

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports