Fragile and conflict affected situations - Food imports
Food imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Fragile and conflict affected situations was 13.33 as of 2014. As the graph below shows, over the past 51 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 19.38 in 1974 and a minimum value of 12.34 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 |
|---|---|
| 1963 | 16.55 |
| 1972 | 15.83 |
| 1973 | 17.38 |
| 1974 | 19.38 |
| 1975 | 15.91 |
| 1976 | 13.83 |
| 2000 | 12.97 |
| 2001 | 13.24 |
| 2002 | 13.63 |
| 2007 | 15.34 |
| 2008 | 12.34 |
| 2009 | 15.08 |
| 2010 | 14.24 |
| 2011 | 18.52 |
| 2014 | 13.33 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
