Rwanda - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Rwanda was 17.00 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 23 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 25.30 in 1998 and a minimum value of 11.69 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
1996 18.88
1997 18.59
1998 25.30
1999 20.65
2001 20.69
2002 16.34
2003 11.69
2004 15.84
2005 13.98
2006 13.09
2007 16.57
2008 11.74
2009 13.17
2010 14.92
2011 15.74
2012 15.66
2013 17.47
2014 17.09
2015 15.42
2016 17.09
2017 22.60
2018 20.62
2019 17.00

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