Singapore - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Singapore was 4.11 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 23.81 in 1964 and a minimum value of 2.24 in 2006.

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 21.69
1963 23.49
1964 23.81
1965 23.73
1966 22.58
1967 22.03
1968 20.64
1969 18.05
1970 16.40
1971 15.53
1972 14.19
1973 12.73
1974 10.35
1975 10.76
1976 10.39
1977 11.50
1978 10.03
1979 9.66
1980 8.48
1981 7.55
1982 7.80
1983 7.80
1984 10.11
1985 9.59
1986 9.46
1987 7.98
1989 6.77
1990 6.06
1991 6.31
1992 6.36
1993 5.88
1994 5.22
1995 4.58
1996 4.41
1997 4.30
1998 4.37
1999 4.00
2000 3.24
2001 3.65
2002 3.60
2003 3.51
2004 3.06
2005 2.43
2006 2.24
2007 2.53
2008 2.51
2009 2.91
2010 3.13
2011 3.31
2012 3.25
2013 3.33
2014 3.53
2015 3.95
2016 4.06
2017 3.86
2018 3.62
2019 3.70
2020 4.11

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports