High income - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in High income was 7.92 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 22.11 in 1962 and a minimum value of 6.22 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.

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Year Value
1962 22.11
1963 21.33
1964 20.11
1965 19.36
1966 18.89
1967 17.97
1968 16.95
1969 16.23
1970 15.75
1971 15.88
1972 15.29
1973 15.31
1974 13.35
1975 13.79
1976 12.64
1977 13.03
1978 12.51
1979 11.55
1980 10.57
1981 10.64
1982 10.63
1983 10.72
1984 10.38
1985 10.01
1986 10.53
1987 9.93
1989 8.87
1990 8.58
1991 9.21
1992 9.21
1993 9.10
1994 8.97
1995 8.51
1996 8.54
1997 7.93
1998 8.00
1999 7.85
2000 6.78
2001 7.11
2002 7.33
2003 7.22
2004 6.78
2005 6.53
2006 6.22
2007 6.41
2008 6.73
2009 7.82
2010 7.36
2011 7.46
2012 7.43
2013 7.72
2014 7.89
2015 8.26
2016 8.50
2017 8.35
2018 8.03
2019 8.09
2020 8.85
2021 7.92

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports