OECD members - 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.

See also:

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

Limitations and Exceptions: Previous editions contained data based on the SITC revision 1. Data for earlier years in previous editions may differ because of the change in methodology. Concordance tables are available to convert data reported in one system to another.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The classification of commodity groups is based on the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) revision 3.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Merchandise import shares may not sum to 100 percent because of unclassified trade.

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports