Iraq - Food imports
Food imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Iraq was 7.20 as of 2014. As the graph below shows, over the past 51 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 28.68 in 1974 and a minimum value of 1.08 in 2001.
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 |
|---|---|
| 1963 | 21.44 |
| 1972 | 19.62 |
| 1973 | 23.96 |
| 1974 | 28.68 |
| 1975 | 17.51 |
| 1976 | 14.94 |
| 2000 | 1.53 |
| 2001 | 1.08 |
| 2002 | 1.56 |
| 2007 | 18.76 |
| 2008 | 3.88 |
| 2014 | 7.20 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
