Malawi - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Malawi was 14.77 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 54 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 23.52 in 2002 and a minimum value of 5.10 in 1978.

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
1966 19.42
1967 16.91
1968 13.60
1969 12.29
1970 18.11
1971 12.30
1972 12.05
1973 14.33
1974 12.25
1975 9.41
1976 10.39
1977 8.12
1978 5.10
1979 6.37
1980 7.51
1981 10.95
1982 7.59
1983 8.19
1984 7.56
1985 7.64
1986 6.60
1987 7.63
1990 8.68
1991 8.16
1994 16.69
1995 13.93
1999 12.16
2000 9.84
2001 11.63
2002 23.52
2003 17.36
2004 17.37
2005 18.23
2006 15.15
2007 10.62
2008 12.04
2009 13.14
2010 13.62
2011 13.18
2012 7.54
2013 11.35
2014 9.74
2015 11.41
2016 18.67
2017 12.45
2018 10.32
2019 10.96
2020 14.77

Limitations and Exceptions: Previous editions contained data based on the SITC revision 1. Data for earlier years in previous editions may differ because of the change in methodology. Concordance tables are available to convert data reported in one system to another.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The classification of commodity groups is based on the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) revision 3.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Merchandise import shares may not sum to 100 percent because of unclassified trade.

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports