Brunei - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Brunei was 10.77 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 35.15 in 1962 and a minimum value of 9.51 in 1993.

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
1962 35.15
1963 31.98
1964 25.37
1965 23.53
1966 21.18
1967 26.32
1968 19.13
1969 19.40
1970 17.16
1971 10.30
1972 17.68
1973 19.42
1974 16.75
1975 13.86
1976 15.33
1977 16.67
1978 19.29
1979 16.53
1980 15.18
1981 17.77
1982 15.36
1983 17.03
1984 21.52
1985 20.62
1986 20.83
1987 24.24
1992 12.59
1993 9.51
1994 14.38
1997 13.57
1998 16.53
2001 17.87
2002 13.42
2003 17.58
2004 17.92
2006 17.04
2007 15.75
2008 14.95
2009 14.74
2010 16.96
2011 14.11
2012 14.03
2013 15.02
2014 15.41
2015 15.71
2016 18.60
2017 15.01
2018 12.14
2019 9.95
2020 10.77

Limitations and Exceptions: Previous editions contained data based on the SITC revision 1. Data for earlier years in previous editions may differ because of the change in methodology. Concordance tables are available to convert data reported in one system to another.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The classification of commodity groups is based on the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) revision 3.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Merchandise import shares may not sum to 100 percent because of unclassified trade.

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports