IBRD only - Food imports
Food imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in IBRD only was 9.13 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 36 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 10.46 in 1984 and a minimum value of 5.52 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 |
|---|---|
| 1984 | 10.46 |
| 1985 | 7.94 |
| 1986 | 7.81 |
| 1987 | 8.90 |
| 1992 | 7.04 |
| 1993 | 5.96 |
| 1994 | 7.22 |
| 1995 | 7.90 |
| 1996 | 8.38 |
| 1997 | 7.76 |
| 1998 | 7.96 |
| 1999 | 7.50 |
| 2000 | 6.77 |
| 2001 | 6.98 |
| 2002 | 6.93 |
| 2003 | 7.03 |
| 2004 | 6.56 |
| 2005 | 5.95 |
| 2006 | 5.52 |
| 2007 | 6.24 |
| 2008 | 6.53 |
| 2009 | 7.25 |
| 2010 | 6.95 |
| 2011 | 7.07 |
| 2012 | 7.18 |
| 2013 | 7.42 |
| 2014 | 7.66 |
| 2015 | 8.12 |
| 2016 | 8.56 |
| 2017 | 8.35 |
| 2018 | 7.71 |
| 2019 | 7.97 |
| 2020 | 9.13 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
