North America - Food imports
Food imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in North America was 6.95 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 21.77 in 1963 and a minimum value of 4.11 in 2000.
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 | 21.69 |
| 1963 | 21.77 |
| 1964 | 20.61 |
| 1965 | 18.08 |
| 1966 | 17.22 |
| 1967 | 16.70 |
| 1968 | 15.50 |
| 1969 | 14.13 |
| 1970 | 14.95 |
| 1971 | 13.51 |
| 1972 | 12.77 |
| 1973 | 13.01 |
| 1974 | 10.79 |
| 1975 | 10.44 |
| 1976 | 9.87 |
| 1977 | 9.69 |
| 1978 | 9.39 |
| 1979 | 8.89 |
| 1980 | 8.10 |
| 1981 | 7.61 |
| 1982 | 7.84 |
| 1983 | 7.72 |
| 1984 | 7.08 |
| 1985 | 6.87 |
| 1986 | 7.00 |
| 1987 | 6.41 |
| 1989 | 5.72 |
| 1990 | 5.86 |
| 1991 | 5.99 |
| 1992 | 5.82 |
| 1993 | 5.47 |
| 1994 | 5.19 |
| 1995 | 4.93 |
| 1996 | 5.06 |
| 1997 | 5.08 |
| 1998 | 4.99 |
| 1999 | 4.70 |
| 2000 | 4.11 |
| 2001 | 4.49 |
| 2002 | 4.83 |
| 2003 | 4.91 |
| 2004 | 4.60 |
| 2005 | 4.43 |
| 2006 | 4.44 |
| 2007 | 4.64 |
| 2008 | 4.72 |
| 2009 | 5.83 |
| 2010 | 5.30 |
| 2011 | 5.37 |
| 2012 | 5.27 |
| 2013 | 5.51 |
| 2014 | 5.87 |
| 2015 | 6.20 |
| 2016 | 6.49 |
| 2017 | 6.42 |
| 2018 | 6.27 |
| 2019 | 6.50 |
| 2020 | 7.18 |
| 2021 | 6.95 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
