Burkina Faso - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Burkina Faso was 11.64 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 34.53 in 1974 and a minimum value of 10.75 in 2019.

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 20.72
1963 24.91
1964 27.09
1965 24.85
1966 28.35
1967 26.98
1968 21.53
1969 19.35
1970 20.44
1971 22.01
1972 25.79
1973 26.02
1974 34.53
1975 21.17
1976 18.93
1977 20.40
1978 28.45
1979 21.85
1980 20.49
1981 24.72
1982 25.24
1983 25.51
1995 21.23
1996 22.33
1997 16.55
1998 20.62
1999 17.72
2000 12.57
2001 14.98
2002 21.29
2003 19.08
2004 17.55
2005 18.28
2007 15.95
2008 16.75
2009 15.72
2010 15.11
2011 16.60
2012 13.14
2013 12.05
2014 12.65
2015 13.96
2016 13.68
2017 12.20
2018 12.35
2019 10.75
2020 11.64

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports