Nigeria - Food imports
Food imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Nigeria was 14.63 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 30.57 in 2011 and a minimum value of 8.10 in 1968.
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 |
|---|---|
| 1962 | 14.13 |
| 1963 | 12.14 |
| 1964 | 9.24 |
| 1965 | 9.14 |
| 1966 | 11.02 |
| 1967 | 10.47 |
| 1968 | 8.10 |
| 1969 | 8.78 |
| 1970 | 8.24 |
| 1971 | 8.63 |
| 1972 | 10.14 |
| 1973 | 10.82 |
| 1974 | 9.53 |
| 1975 | 9.38 |
| 1976 | 10.11 |
| 1977 | 12.87 |
| 1978 | 14.13 |
| 1979 | 16.85 |
| 1981 | 15.54 |
| 1983 | 21.55 |
| 1984 | 21.29 |
| 1985 | 17.96 |
| 1986 | 15.77 |
| 1987 | 10.86 |
| 1996 | 17.51 |
| 1997 | 18.39 |
| 1998 | 19.60 |
| 1999 | 27.02 |
| 2000 | 19.92 |
| 2001 | 21.70 |
| 2002 | 19.58 |
| 2003 | 15.50 |
| 2006 | 17.96 |
| 2007 | 20.06 |
| 2008 | 9.78 |
| 2009 | 11.83 |
| 2010 | 10.25 |
| 2011 | 30.57 |
| 2012 | 22.71 |
| 2013 | 17.83 |
| 2014 | 17.03 |
| 2015 | 16.95 |
| 2016 | 12.85 |
| 2017 | 16.32 |
| 2018 | 10.93 |
| 2019 | 9.92 |
| 2020 | 14.63 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
