Qatar - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Qatar was 11.92 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 48 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 24.41 in 1974 and a minimum value of 4.79 in 2007.

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
1972 20.34
1973 18.74
1974 24.41
1975 13.51
1976 9.94
1977 8.16
1978 11.13
1979 11.72
1980 14.96
1981 13.88
1982 10.66
1983 15.09
1984 21.79
1985 18.24
1991 16.97
1992 14.43
1993 14.65
1994 15.10
1995 9.37
1996 10.86
1998 10.32
1999 15.31
2000 11.75
2001 11.30
2002 11.93
2003 9.75
2004 7.47
2005 6.58
2006 5.21
2007 4.79
2008 6.05
2010 8.50
2012 10.19
2013 9.57
2014 9.90
2015 9.75
2016 9.90
2017 11.18
2018 10.62
2019 10.82
2020 11.92

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports