Kuwait - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Kuwait was 20.05 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 50 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 20.76 in 1971 and a minimum value of 10.73 in 1991.

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
1970 19.79
1971 20.76
1972 20.50
1973 20.00
1974 17.79
1975 17.07
1976 14.28
1977 11.98
1978 14.61
1979 15.56
1980 14.80
1981 14.62
1982 13.61
1983 14.00
1984 17.42
1986 18.03
1987 19.64
1988 18.14
1989 19.35
1990 16.74
1991 10.73
1992 13.36
1993 15.06
1994 16.97
1995 15.53
1996 15.66
1997 15.30
1998 15.10
1999 16.82
2000 13.84
2001 12.60
2002 12.01
2003 11.86
2004 10.99
2006 14.43
2007 12.90
2008 14.61
2010 15.32
2011 16.80
2013 14.96
2014 15.62
2015 15.84
2016 15.00
2017 15.05
2018 15.03
2019 16.49
2020 20.05

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports