Paraguay - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Paraguay was 7.59 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 23.03 in 1963 and a minimum value of 6.59 in 2008.

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 21.35
1963 23.03
1964 19.07
1965 13.63
1966 12.95
1967 15.05
1968 17.45
1969 22.17
1970 19.13
1971 17.57
1972 16.78
1973 12.79
1974 14.93
1975 14.70
1976 15.06
1977 11.91
1978 13.10
1979 13.37
1980 11.43
1981 12.62
1982 9.86
1983 9.29
1984 7.42
1985 9.81
1986 9.83
1987 9.32
1989 9.41
1990 8.02
1991 11.12
1992 13.11
1993 11.44
1994 14.50
1995 18.53
1996 20.69
1997 19.74
1998 21.70
1999 17.01
2000 16.67
2001 14.36
2002 12.37
2003 10.12
2004 9.84
2005 8.66
2006 6.69
2007 7.05
2008 6.59
2009 8.22
2010 7.46
2011 7.38
2012 7.95
2013 7.97
2014 8.19
2015 8.70
2016 9.22
2017 8.75
2018 8.52
2019 8.21
2020 8.86
2021 7.59

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports