Japan - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Japan was 9.51 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 22.70 in 1965 and a minimum value of 8.48 in 2014.

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 17.34
1963 20.76
1964 21.64
1965 22.70
1966 22.55
1967 19.47
1968 18.08
1969 17.49
1970 16.92
1971 18.18
1972 18.54
1973 18.92
1974 15.58
1975 17.88
1976 16.75
1977 16.83
1978 16.83
1979 15.09
1980 12.04
1981 12.96
1982 12.72
1983 13.69
1984 13.86
1985 13.92
1986 17.58
1987 16.63
1988 16.88
1989 15.87
1990 14.55
1991 15.55
1992 17.08
1993 17.40
1994 18.01
1995 16.07
1996 15.49
1997 14.65
1998 15.86
1999 15.15
2000 12.80
2001 13.07
2002 13.25
2003 12.31
2004 11.58
2005 10.40
2006 9.01
2007 8.90
2008 8.67
2009 10.46
2010 9.24
2011 9.24
2012 8.91
2013 8.61
2014 8.48
2015 10.04
2016 10.35
2017 10.04
2018 9.42
2019 9.82
2020 10.58
2021 9.51

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports