Dem. Rep. Congo - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Dem. Rep. Congo was 9.44 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 25.66 in 1962 and a minimum value of 7.66 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 25.66
1965 19.39
1970 15.68
1972 15.75
1973 18.22
1974 21.47
1975 16.97
1976 21.16
1977 16.93
1978 20.67
1985 20.64
1986 20.55
2015 14.13
2016 15.21
2017 13.40
2018 8.55
2019 7.66
2020 9.44

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports