Euro area - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Euro area was 9.08 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 22.44 in 1962 and a minimum value of 7.51 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.

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Year Value
1962 22.44
1963 19.32
1964 18.35
1965 19.13
1966 18.95
1967 18.20
1968 17.08
1969 16.37
1970 15.47
1971 16.90
1972 16.08
1973 16.26
1974 13.66
1975 14.85
1976 13.74
1977 15.16
1978 14.73
1979 13.29
1980 11.96
1981 12.15
1982 12.55
1983 12.63
1984 12.37
1985 12.13
1986 12.73
1987 12.19
1988 12.01
1989 10.98
1990 10.55
1991 10.93
1992 11.16
1993 11.48
1994 11.56
1995 11.02
1996 10.84
1997 10.03
1998 9.78
1999 9.37
2000 7.79
2001 8.28
2002 8.69
2003 8.64
2004 8.08
2005 7.92
2006 7.51
2007 7.76
2008 8.32
2009 9.69
2010 8.97
2011 9.13
2012 9.42
2013 9.86
2014 9.87
2015 10.19
2016 10.38
2017 10.11
2018 9.53
2019 9.57
2020 10.57
2021 9.08

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports