Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) was 15.60 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 52 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 19.64 in 1974 and a minimum value of 13.28 in 2012.

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
1967 17.55
1970 18.57
1971 18.31
1972 18.84
1974 19.64
1975 16.27
1976 14.03
1977 13.80
1978 14.83
1979 14.42
1995 17.01
1997 14.67
1998 16.01
1999 16.06
2000 15.69
2001 17.11
2002 17.20
2003 18.23
2004 15.79
2005 14.29
2006 14.05
2007 13.59
2008 14.44
2009 15.37
2010 14.37
2011 14.98
2012 13.28
2013 13.37
2014 13.93
2015 13.75
2016 15.74
2017 17.09
2018 16.56
2019 15.60

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports