Côte d'Ivoire - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Côte d'Ivoire was 21.36 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 25.13 in 2011 and a minimum value of 13.33 in 1978.

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 18.86
1963 17.68
1964 17.71
1965 18.34
1966 20.70
1967 15.84
1968 16.63
1969 14.83
1970 15.90
1971 16.07
1972 17.34
1973 20.09
1974 17.25
1975 14.70
1976 13.37
1977 14.01
1978 13.33
1979 15.01
1981 20.30
1982 19.32
1983 20.59
1985 17.16
1995 20.89
1996 18.59
1997 19.20
1998 20.75
1999 19.20
2000 17.18
2001 21.09
2002 22.58
2003 22.49
2004 17.20
2005 14.62
2006 17.28
2007 17.41
2008 19.61
2009 23.19
2010 19.25
2011 25.13
2012 20.01
2013 14.52
2014 16.84
2015 17.57
2016 21.52
2017 20.93
2018 21.05
2019 21.36

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