Lesotho - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Lesotho was 28.14 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 20 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 28.14 in 2009 and a minimum value of 15.62 in 2004.

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
2000 17.62
2001 27.00
2002 23.06
2003 19.34
2004 15.62
2008 20.17
2009 28.14
2010 20.58
2011 23.51
2012 20.75
2013 18.08
2014 20.46
2015 19.98
2016 24.03
2017 18.31
2018 18.46
2019 24.69
2020 28.14

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports