Namibia - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Namibia was 12.59 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 20 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 18.60 in 2004 and a minimum value of 11.28 in 2018.

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
2000 16.90
2001 13.12
2002 12.57
2003 15.01
2004 18.60
2005 17.91
2006 16.21
2007 15.40
2008 13.98
2009 14.82
2010 14.91
2011 14.09
2012 13.02
2013 13.07
2014 11.43
2015 12.32
2016 12.76
2017 13.51
2018 11.28
2019 12.54
2020 12.59

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports