Bhutan - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Bhutan was 13.71 as of 2012. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 21.50 in 2007 and a minimum value of 10.95 in 2011.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1993 19.40
1994 21.47
1998 18.77
1999 17.91
2005 14.48
2006 20.64
2007 21.50
2008 16.21
2009 14.58
2010 11.47
2011 10.95
2012 13.71

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports