Mozambique - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Mozambique was 19.75 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 26 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 23.80 in 1997 and a minimum value of 10.66 in 2013.

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
1994 17.93
1995 22.31
1996 22.03
1997 23.80
2000 14.01
2001 13.26
2002 11.81
2003 13.57
2004 14.74
2005 14.97
2006 13.76
2007 17.77
2008 14.21
2009 15.42
2010 11.61
2011 12.33
2012 12.96
2013 10.66
2014 12.54
2015 11.90
2016 14.99
2017 14.77
2018 15.93
2019 16.14
2020 19.75

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