Maldives - Food imports
Food imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Maldives was 19.46 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 24 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 25.60 in 1996 and a minimum value of 15.56 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 |
|---|---|
| 1995 | 23.95 |
| 1996 | 25.60 |
| 1997 | 22.80 |
| 1998 | 24.37 |
| 1999 | 23.38 |
| 2000 | 23.62 |
| 2001 | 23.01 |
| 2002 | 22.63 |
| 2003 | 20.94 |
| 2004 | 18.27 |
| 2005 | 15.56 |
| 2006 | 15.96 |
| 2007 | 16.58 |
| 2008 | 15.87 |
| 2009 | 22.22 |
| 2010 | 22.35 |
| 2011 | 20.96 |
| 2012 | 21.18 |
| 2013 | 22.50 |
| 2014 | 21.03 |
| 2015 | 22.09 |
| 2016 | 20.93 |
| 2017 | 20.12 |
| 2018 | 17.26 |
| 2019 | 19.46 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
