Paraguay - 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.

See also:

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

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