Peru - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Peru was 13.98 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 25.17 in 1983 and a minimum value of 9.85 in 2013.

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 16.44
1963 16.09
1964 17.39
1965 17.29
1966 16.47
1967 16.78
1968 21.79
1969 21.72
1970 20.14
1971 17.27
1972 18.17
1973 13.37
1974 15.05
1975 15.75
1976 13.97
1977 14.95
1978 17.46
1979 20.25
1980 19.77
1982 17.77
1983 25.17
1984 23.54
1985 19.45
1986 22.71
1987 19.47
1992 21.87
1993 19.64
1994 17.63
1995 13.55
1996 16.61
1997 14.23
1998 16.30
1999 14.67
2000 11.65
2001 13.33
2002 13.48
2003 12.59
2004 12.71
2005 11.45
2006 10.22
2007 10.44
2008 9.98
2009 11.00
2010 10.32
2011 10.18
2012 10.01
2013 9.85
2014 10.52
2015 11.20
2016 11.62
2017 12.12
2018 11.39
2019 11.39
2020 13.98

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