Ecuador - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Ecuador was 13.29 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 13.29 in 2020 and a minimum value of 4.78 in 1986.

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 13.20
1963 9.79
1964 12.17
1965 10.35
1966 13.29
1967 11.01
1968 9.27
1969 8.10
1970 7.92
1971 6.77
1972 9.31
1973 9.67
1974 8.78
1975 8.39
1976 8.32
1977 7.23
1978 7.81
1980 8.39
1981 6.43
1982 5.08
1983 10.45
1984 11.49
1985 8.15
1986 4.78
1987 6.47
1990 8.66
1991 7.67
1992 5.09
1993 5.10
1994 6.38
1995 7.58
1996 9.95
1997 9.39
1998 12.00
1999 10.75
2000 9.01
2001 8.06
2002 8.69
2003 9.22
2004 8.96
2005 8.03
2006 7.06
2007 8.44
2008 8.97
2009 9.47
2010 8.35
2011 8.61
2012 7.78
2013 7.31
2014 7.72
2015 8.76
2016 10.57
2017 10.19
2018 10.11
2019 11.74
2020 13.29

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