Brazil - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Brazil was 6.29 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 24.11 in 1964 and a minimum value of 4.36 in 2005.

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 15.86
1963 17.06
1964 24.11
1965 19.82
1966 18.82
1967 20.00
1968 16.39
1969 13.92
1970 10.91
1971 8.90
1972 7.65
1973 10.92
1974 7.59
1975 6.16
1976 7.86
1977 6.76
1978 10.12
1979 11.86
1980 9.60
1981 8.78
1982 8.46
1983 8.26
1984 9.31
1985 8.97
1986 15.25
1987 8.11
1989 9.88
1990 9.41
1991 11.23
1992 9.56
1993 9.73
1994 10.93
1995 10.71
1996 10.76
1997 9.08
1998 9.66
1999 7.89
2000 6.57
2001 5.70
2002 6.71
2003 7.01
2004 4.82
2005 4.36
2006 4.48
2007 4.68
2008 4.48
2009 5.31
2010 4.67
2011 4.58
2012 4.84
2013 4.97
2014 4.97
2015 5.19
2016 7.41
2017 6.32
2018 5.38
2019 5.39
2020 6.29

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports