Egypt - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Egypt was 22.83 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 55 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 44.27 in 1974 and a minimum value of 16.90 in 2008.

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
1965 28.48
1966 28.58
1967 41.99
1968 33.96
1969 26.14
1970 23.22
1971 29.57
1972 28.67
1973 31.67
1974 44.27
1975 35.92
1976 28.32
1977 23.12
1978 25.85
1979 26.17
1980 32.39
1981 34.20
1982 30.77
1983 25.54
1984 27.68
1985 27.08
1986 30.02
1987 27.33
1994 27.52
1995 28.38
1996 29.48
1997 26.27
1998 21.21
1999 22.87
2000 25.20
2001 26.06
2002 27.84
2003 25.02
2004 22.55
2005 20.08
2006 19.06
2007 20.43
2008 16.90
2009 17.20
2010 19.14
2011 23.75
2012 22.42
2013 17.51
2014 20.88
2015 19.44
2016 20.38
2017 20.29
2018 18.33
2019 20.72
2020 22.83

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports