Pakistan - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Pakistan was 12.87 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 30.17 in 1972 and a minimum value of 8.36 in 1969.

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 14.34
1963 21.96
1964 20.41
1965 20.16
1966 15.75
1967 21.55
1968 19.01
1969 8.36
1970 20.91
1971 19.03
1972 30.17
1973 24.86
1974 23.18
1975 23.60
1976 20.90
1977 17.00
1978 19.32
1979 19.91
1980 13.03
1981 14.05
1982 13.57
1983 14.03
1984 17.08
1985 18.89
1986 17.85
1987 13.81
1990 17.35
1991 12.16
1992 15.08
1993 14.22
1995 17.50
1996 14.82
1997 18.57
1998 20.29
1999 16.37
2000 13.77
2001 12.21
2002 11.88
2003 11.29
2004 10.00
2005 10.40
2006 10.26
2007 8.86
2008 11.85
2009 11.34
2010 13.04
2011 11.95
2012 11.06
2013 10.20
2014 11.73
2015 12.10
2016 12.51
2017 11.81
2018 10.04
2019 10.74
2020 14.99
2021 12.87

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