Sudan - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Sudan was 17.98 as of 2011. As the graph below shows, over the past 48 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 25.88 in 2010 and a minimum value of 8.14 in 2007.

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
1963 20.24
1964 24.26
1965 24.37
1966 22.66
1967 23.21
1968 21.36
1969 14.00
1970 21.27
1971 21.02
1972 23.31
1973 24.29
1974 23.91
1975 18.67
1976 13.90
1977 12.74
1978 19.01
1979 18.73
1980 25.87
1981 19.26
1982 21.15
1984 17.27
1985 16.89
1995 24.38
1996 17.34
1997 15.64
1998 15.15
1999 18.47
2000 22.73
2001 19.34
2002 18.68
2003 16.39
2004 14.39
2005 12.51
2006 11.91
2007 8.14
2008 13.03
2009 15.21
2010 25.88
2011 17.98

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports