Germany - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Germany was 7.32 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 25.59 in 1962 and a minimum value of 6.54 in 2007.

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 25.59
1963 21.88
1964 20.21
1965 20.75
1966 21.82
1967 20.37
1968 19.23
1969 18.65
1970 16.94
1971 20.79
1972 17.56
1973 17.19
1974 13.95
1975 14.61
1976 13.98
1977 16.63
1978 15.22
1979 13.23
1980 12.13
1981 12.43
1982 12.62
1983 12.39
1984 12.17
1985 12.09
1986 12.60
1987 11.95
1988 11.48
1989 10.51
1990 10.14
1991 9.93
1992 10.24
1993 9.96
1994 10.24
1995 9.78
1996 9.84
1997 9.23
1998 8.89
1999 8.30
2000 6.58
2001 7.47
2002 7.91
2003 7.36
2004 6.80
2005 7.03
2006 6.62
2007 6.54
2008 7.39
2009 8.47
2010 7.61
2011 7.55
2012 7.85
2013 8.16
2014 8.11
2015 8.20
2016 8.41
2017 8.22
2018 7.76
2019 7.80
2020 8.55
2021 7.32

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports