France - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in France was 10.53 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 23.01 in 1962 and a minimum value of 7.44 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.

See also:

Year Value
1962 23.01
1963 20.86
1964 20.54
1965 19.94
1966 18.81
1967 17.37
1968 15.58
1969 14.96
1970 14.79
1971 14.07
1972 13.76
1973 14.05
1974 10.91
1975 12.91
1976 11.83
1977 13.94
1978 14.05
1979 11.96
1980 10.28
1981 10.31
1982 10.59
1983 11.34
1984 11.29
1985 10.99
1986 11.73
1987 11.08
1988 10.75
1989 10.17
1990 9.77
1991 10.34
1992 10.55
1993 11.17
1994 11.19
1995 10.75
1996 10.38
1997 10.01
1998 9.66
1999 9.16
2000 7.91
2001 8.28
2002 8.72
2003 8.84
2004 8.29
2005 7.80
2006 7.44
2007 7.71
2008 8.00
2009 9.30
2010 8.50
2011 8.25
2012 8.41
2013 9.05
2014 9.18
2015 9.43
2016 9.81
2017 9.66
2018 9.41
2019 9.33
2020 10.53

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