India - Food imports
Food imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in India was 5.05 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 34.15 in 1966 and a minimum value of 2.34 in 2008.
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 | 17.08 |
| 1963 | 15.20 |
| 1964 | 16.86 |
| 1965 | 22.01 |
| 1966 | 34.15 |
| 1967 | 32.09 |
| 1968 | 25.04 |
| 1969 | 23.30 |
| 1970 | 20.92 |
| 1971 | 14.58 |
| 1972 | 9.60 |
| 1973 | 20.07 |
| 1974 | 19.69 |
| 1975 | 31.85 |
| 1976 | 27.48 |
| 1977 | 16.43 |
| 1978 | 13.85 |
| 1979 | 8.92 |
| 1980 | 8.99 |
| 1981 | 8.54 |
| 1983 | 11.66 |
| 1984 | 10.18 |
| 1985 | 8.41 |
| 1986 | 7.04 |
| 1987 | 8.44 |
| 1988 | 8.05 |
| 1989 | 3.51 |
| 1990 | 3.24 |
| 1991 | 2.70 |
| 1992 | 3.78 |
| 1993 | 3.09 |
| 1994 | 5.93 |
| 1995 | 4.24 |
| 1996 | 4.63 |
| 1997 | 5.25 |
| 1998 | 7.98 |
| 1999 | 6.63 |
| 2000 | 4.31 |
| 2001 | 5.26 |
| 2002 | 5.52 |
| 2003 | 5.47 |
| 2004 | 4.31 |
| 2005 | 3.37 |
| 2006 | 2.82 |
| 2007 | 3.15 |
| 2008 | 2.34 |
| 2009 | 3.84 |
| 2010 | 3.52 |
| 2011 | 3.31 |
| 2012 | 3.61 |
| 2013 | 3.58 |
| 2014 | 4.16 |
| 2015 | 5.24 |
| 2016 | 6.09 |
| 2017 | 5.64 |
| 2018 | 3.90 |
| 2019 | 3.97 |
| 2020 | 5.49 |
| 2021 | 5.05 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
