Botswana - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Botswana was 12.71 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 20 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 15.48 in 2002 and a minimum value of 7.77 in 2014.

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
2000 14.01
2001 13.92
2002 15.48
2003 13.87
2004 14.37
2005 13.82
2006 13.73
2007 13.13
2008 11.97
2009 13.06
2010 14.58
2011 9.75
2012 8.82
2013 8.15
2014 7.77
2015 8.75
2016 11.05
2017 12.52
2018 11.98
2019 12.67
2020 12.71

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports