South Africa - Food imports
Food imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in South Africa was 8.40 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 46 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 8.40 in 1992 and a minimum value of 2.92 in 1980.
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 |
|---|---|
| 1974 | 5.40 |
| 1975 | 4.93 |
| 1976 | 4.85 |
| 1977 | 6.34 |
| 1978 | 4.75 |
| 1979 | 4.94 |
| 1980 | 2.92 |
| 1981 | 3.53 |
| 1982 | 3.48 |
| 1983 | 6.52 |
| 1984 | 8.04 |
| 1985 | 6.11 |
| 1992 | 8.40 |
| 1993 | 6.17 |
| 1994 | 6.34 |
| 1995 | 6.68 |
| 1996 | 6.40 |
| 1997 | 5.55 |
| 1998 | 5.24 |
| 1999 | 5.42 |
| 2000 | 4.69 |
| 2001 | 4.35 |
| 2002 | 4.97 |
| 2003 | 4.98 |
| 2004 | 4.96 |
| 2005 | 4.45 |
| 2006 | 4.37 |
| 2007 | 5.17 |
| 2008 | 5.26 |
| 2009 | 6.53 |
| 2010 | 6.63 |
| 2011 | 6.85 |
| 2012 | 7.16 |
| 2013 | 6.55 |
| 2014 | 6.29 |
| 2015 | 6.98 |
| 2016 | 8.36 |
| 2017 | 7.88 |
| 2018 | 7.07 |
| 2019 | 7.23 |
| 2020 | 8.40 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
