Lower middle income - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Lower middle income was 11.08 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 53 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 23.91 in 1967 and a minimum value of 8.41 in 2005.

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
1967 23.91
1968 22.11
1969 18.41
1970 18.00
1971 15.79
1972 14.60
1973 18.00
1974 19.82
1975 23.37
1976 20.05
1977 15.86
1978 15.61
1979 13.87
1980 13.61
1981 13.40
1983 13.83
1984 13.50
1985 13.42
1986 12.12
1987 12.16
1995 11.11
1996 11.71
1997 10.99
1998 11.79
1999 12.13
2000 10.56
2001 10.99
2002 10.90
2003 10.67
2004 9.35
2005 8.41
2006 8.44
2007 9.53
2008 8.64
2009 9.78
2010 9.71
2011 10.84
2012 10.03
2013 10.12
2014 10.60
2015 10.84
2016 11.31
2017 11.30
2018 9.91
2019 9.56
2020 11.08

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports