Central African Republic - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Central African Republic was 20.56 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 56 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 39.33 in 2009 and a minimum value of 0.47 in 2006.

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 13.87
1963 15.76
1964 13.74
1965 13.42
1966 14.67
1967 13.78
1968 14.81
1969 15.03
1970 16.94
1971 18.96
1973 16.85
1974 15.99
1975 16.12
1976 17.42
1977 16.07
1978 16.89
1979 16.29
1980 20.86
1993 18.30
1994 27.08
1995 15.62
1996 12.34
1997 21.77
1998 23.41
1999 22.79
2000 29.33
2001 26.95
2002 20.35
2003 23.45
2004 16.48
2005 17.23
2006 0.47
2007 18.61
2008 25.93
2009 39.33
2010 28.09
2011 31.24
2012 29.62
2013 36.04
2014 26.36
2015 15.16
2016 15.92
2017 21.07
2018 20.56

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