Ethiopia - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Ethiopia was 18.40 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 25 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 24.16 in 2003 and a minimum value of 2.43 in 1997.

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
1995 13.84
1997 2.43
1998 6.05
1999 9.38
2000 7.01
2001 14.55
2002 11.23
2003 24.16
2004 12.30
2005 10.59
2006 8.47
2007 7.01
2008 13.17
2009 10.86
2010 10.88
2011 14.38
2012 10.94
2013 12.53
2014 8.96
2015 9.77
2016 13.12
2017 12.38
2018 15.06
2019 12.19
2020 18.40

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports