Saudi Arabia - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Saudi Arabia was 15.49 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 52 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 31.33 in 1968 and a minimum value of 10.45 in 1992.

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
1968 31.33
1969 27.78
1974 19.86
1975 15.64
1976 11.82
1977 10.56
1978 11.33
1979 12.71
1980 14.12
1981 14.43
1982 12.93
1983 12.17
1984 15.58
1985 14.94
1986 16.46
1987 16.05
1991 12.84
1992 10.45
1993 10.66
1994 11.56
1995 16.14
1996 17.08
1998 15.50
1999 17.09
2000 18.40
2001 15.74
2002 16.60
2003 16.81
2004 15.99
2005 14.95
2006 13.63
2007 13.28
2008 14.47
2009 15.04
2010 15.95
2011 15.33
2012 14.05
2013 14.54
2014 14.28
2015 13.73
2016 15.78
2017 15.97
2018 14.46
2019 13.69
2020 15.49

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