Nicaragua - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Nicaragua was 16.58 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 55 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 21.59 in 1993 and a minimum value of 7.74 in 1977.

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
1965 12.62
1966 10.65
1967 9.60
1968 11.16
1969 9.34
1970 9.81
1971 10.54
1972 11.69
1973 12.67
1974 7.96
1975 8.51
1976 8.83
1977 7.74
1978 10.01
1979 13.82
1980 15.43
1981 17.34
1982 12.25
1983 12.74
1984 13.62
1985 9.50
1986 12.07
1993 21.59
1994 19.52
1995 17.95
1996 18.68
1997 14.45
1998 17.64
1999 18.60
2000 15.86
2001 15.96
2002 14.97
2003 14.59
2004 13.35
2005 13.22
2006 11.63
2007 15.96
2008 13.87
2009 17.64
2010 16.35
2011 17.25
2012 15.13
2013 17.27
2014 16.68
2015 17.04
2016 14.08
2017 14.02
2018 14.36
2019 14.81
2020 16.58

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports