Libya - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Libya was 26.28 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 56 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 32.90 in 2016 and a minimum value of 11.73 in 1962.

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 11.73
1963 13.87
1964 15.54
1965 13.79
1966 15.64
1967 18.23
1968 13.79
1969 14.18
1970 22.59
1971 22.26
1972 16.69
1973 17.87
1974 17.34
1975 17.13
1976 14.80
1977 18.71
1978 16.62
1979 16.74
1980 19.29
1981 18.14
1982 15.99
1983 17.98
1984 16.11
1985 17.34
1986 20.30
1987 18.01
2003 17.04
2004 16.77
2007 16.14
2008 16.37
2009 11.76
2010 12.17
2016 32.90
2017 31.49
2018 26.28

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports