Greece - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Greece was 13.08 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 18.85 in 1987 and a minimum value of 8.41 in 1976.

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 11.98
1963 14.09
1964 14.64
1965 15.51
1966 13.97
1967 14.76
1968 12.60
1969 12.41
1970 10.90
1971 12.09
1972 10.85
1973 12.40
1974 11.23
1975 9.75
1976 8.41
1977 8.50
1978 9.09
1979 9.89
1980 8.76
1981 11.29
1982 12.69
1983 13.27
1984 12.65
1985 12.96
1986 16.57
1987 18.85
1988 17.85
1989 16.19
1990 15.32
1991 14.02
1992 14.58
1993 14.16
1994 15.93
1995 15.98
1996 15.04
1997 14.86
1998 13.68
1999 13.09
2000 11.32
2001 11.89
2002 12.89
2003 11.59
2004 11.36
2005 11.24
2006 10.69
2007 10.99
2008 10.65
2009 12.31
2010 12.29
2011 13.17
2012 12.31
2013 13.14
2014 12.81
2015 14.09
2016 14.62
2017 13.49
2018 12.12
2019 12.51
2020 13.08

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