Food imports (% of merchandise imports) - Country Ranking - Europe

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: Thematic map, Time series comparison

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Montenegro 23.65 2021
2 Andorra 22.12 2018
3 Bosnia and Herzegovina 17.82 2020
4 Albania 16.77 2020
5 Cyprus 15.29 2021
6 Latvia 14.49 2021
7 Portugal 14.10 2021
8 Moldova 13.40 2021
9 Greece 13.08 2020
10 Malta 12.96 2020
11 Croatia 12.78 2021
12 Denmark 12.69 2021
13 Bulgaria 12.60 2020
14 Luxembourg 12.09 2021
15 Netherlands 12.07 2021
16 Iceland 11.33 2021
17 Lithuania 11.25 2021
18 Spain 11.14 2021
19 Ireland 10.84 2020
20 Norway 10.63 2020
21 Ukraine 10.56 2021
22 Romania 10.56 2020
23 France 10.53 2020
24 North Macedonia 10.46 2020
25 Sweden 9.96 2021
26 Italy 9.88 2021
27 United Kingdom 9.44 2021
28 Belarus 9.43 2021
29 Austria 8.40 2020
30 Poland 8.33 2021
31 Germany 7.32 2021
32 Finland 7.25 2021
33 Belgium 6.98 2021
34 Estonia 6.94 2021
35 Turkey 6.72 2020
36 Slovenia 6.51 2021
37 Slovak Republic 5.87 2021
38 Hungary 5.79 2021
39 Serbia 5.78 2007
40 Czech Republic 5.57 2021
41 Switzerland 4.65 2021

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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.