Ireland - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Ireland was 10.84 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 19.09 in 1965 and a minimum value of 6.29 in 2000.

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:

Year Value
1963 19.03
1964 17.88
1965 19.09
1966 18.39
1967 17.60
1968 16.87
1969 14.55
1970 14.21
1971 12.69
1972 13.64
1973 13.77
1974 12.93
1975 13.93
1976 12.96
1977 13.52
1978 12.29
1979 12.07
1980 12.12
1981 13.11
1982 12.66
1983 12.98
1984 12.07
1985 12.31
1986 13.03
1987 12.35
1988 12.37
1989 10.98
1990 10.59
1991 11.36
1992 11.64
1993 9.96
1994 9.76
1995 8.47
1996 8.32
1997 7.84
1998 7.20
1999 7.23
2000 6.29
2001 6.81
2002 7.27
2003 8.26
2004 7.94
2005 7.92
2006 8.34
2007 8.99
2008 10.01
2009 11.96
2010 11.37
2011 11.34
2012 11.84
2013 12.68
2014 11.63
2015 11.10
2016 10.55
2017 10.65
2018 9.93
2019 10.04
2020 10.84

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.

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports