Philippines - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Philippines was 13.18 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 20.35 in 1965 and a minimum value of 6.47 in 2003.

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 15.83
1963 14.41
1964 16.73
1965 20.35
1966 15.84
1967 16.15
1968 13.25
1969 12.79
1970 11.22
1971 13.64
1972 15.26
1973 13.87
1974 11.11
1975 10.49
1976 9.88
1977 9.53
1978 7.98
1979 7.38
1980 7.81
1981 8.50
1982 8.36
1983 8.86
1984 8.54
1985 10.71
1986 10.27
1987 8.54
1991 8.54
1992 8.44
1993 7.78
1994 8.10
1995 8.35
1996 8.13
1997 7.60
1998 8.80
1999 8.26
2000 7.02
2001 7.65
2002 7.05
2003 6.47
2004 6.74
2005 6.93
2006 6.75
2007 7.31
2008 10.78
2009 11.53
2010 11.03
2011 10.31
2012 10.43
2013 10.24
2014 12.17
2015 11.72
2016 11.62
2017 11.07
2018 11.19
2019 12.04
2020 13.79
2021 13.18

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