Senegal - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Senegal was 24.01 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 38.42 in 1967 and a minimum value of 19.61 in 2019.

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 32.34
1963 34.26
1964 37.59
1965 36.89
1966 36.03
1967 38.42
1968 37.21
1969 34.80
1970 28.94
1971 32.25
1972 28.53
1973 37.90
1974 34.81
1975 24.70
1977 23.75
1978 25.30
1979 24.00
1980 24.56
1981 27.46
1986 22.95
1987 21.36
1996 24.71
1997 26.79
1998 29.97
1999 28.58
2000 23.31
2001 26.77
2002 26.07
2003 29.60
2004 28.26
2005 28.14
2006 23.38
2007 25.06
2008 25.94
2009 24.19
2010 22.41
2011 22.95
2012 24.15
2013 24.23
2014 22.78
2015 21.69
2016 23.35
2017 23.99
2018 21.04
2019 19.61
2020 24.01

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