OECD members - Food imports
Food imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in OECD members was 8.09 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 20.93 in 1962 and a minimum value of 6.30 in 2006.
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 | 20.93 |
| 1963 | 20.20 |
| 1964 | 18.74 |
| 1965 | 18.02 |
| 1966 | 17.62 |
| 1967 | 16.50 |
| 1968 | 15.38 |
| 1969 | 14.87 |
| 1970 | 14.92 |
| 1971 | 15.00 |
| 1972 | 14.39 |
| 1973 | 14.62 |
| 1974 | 12.91 |
| 1975 | 13.22 |
| 1976 | 11.97 |
| 1977 | 12.62 |
| 1978 | 12.14 |
| 1979 | 11.11 |
| 1980 | 10.45 |
| 1981 | 10.49 |
| 1982 | 10.36 |
| 1983 | 10.77 |
| 1984 | 10.30 |
| 1985 | 9.81 |
| 1986 | 10.22 |
| 1987 | 9.79 |
| 1989 | 9.20 |
| 1990 | 8.90 |
| 1991 | 9.00 |
| 1992 | 9.16 |
| 1993 | 9.08 |
| 1994 | 9.06 |
| 1995 | 8.53 |
| 1996 | 8.58 |
| 1997 | 8.04 |
| 1998 | 7.97 |
| 1999 | 7.69 |
| 2000 | 6.55 |
| 2001 | 6.99 |
| 2002 | 7.30 |
| 2003 | 7.29 |
| 2004 | 6.86 |
| 2005 | 6.63 |
| 2006 | 6.30 |
| 2007 | 6.55 |
| 2008 | 6.89 |
| 2009 | 8.01 |
| 2010 | 7.37 |
| 2011 | 7.50 |
| 2012 | 7.50 |
| 2013 | 7.84 |
| 2014 | 7.98 |
| 2015 | 8.33 |
| 2016 | 8.55 |
| 2017 | 8.37 |
| 2018 | 8.04 |
| 2019 | 8.18 |
| 2020 | 9.00 |
| 2021 | 8.09 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
