IDA only - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in IDA only was 15.63 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 18.25 in 2003 and a minimum value of 14.16 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
2000 15.47
2001 16.55
2002 16.75
2003 18.25
2004 15.84
2005 14.51
2006 14.70
2007 15.71
2008 15.47
2009 16.72
2010 15.22
2011 15.77
2012 14.16
2013 14.19
2014 14.70
2015 15.22
2016 16.45
2017 16.69
2018 16.66
2019 15.63

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports