Honduras - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Honduras was 18.48 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 56 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 19.42 in 2016 and a minimum value of 8.35 in 1979.

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
1963 12.03
1964 12.10
1965 11.96
1966 11.76
1967 12.12
1968 12.60
1969 11.47
1970 11.65
1971 9.68
1972 10.83
1973 9.73
1974 9.97
1975 12.89
1976 9.97
1977 9.15
1978 9.17
1979 8.35
1980 10.08
1981 10.14
1982 9.94
1983 9.84
1984 10.94
1985 9.14
1986 10.58
1987 9.65
1993 12.54
1994 14.49
1995 12.63
1996 16.42
1997 18.55
1998 17.78
1999 17.92
2000 17.60
2001 17.49
2002 16.81
2003 15.45
2004 14.98
2005 15.07
2006 13.40
2007 14.67
2009 18.46
2010 16.41
2011 16.40
2012 16.71
2014 18.08
2015 18.19
2016 19.42
2017 18.04
2018 18.57
2019 18.48

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