Tanzania - Food imports
Food imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Tanzania was 8.49 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 45 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 19.94 in 1998 and a minimum value of 4.93 in 1979.
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 |
|---|---|
| 1976 | 11.38 |
| 1977 | 11.23 |
| 1978 | 7.56 |
| 1979 | 4.93 |
| 1980 | 13.33 |
| 1981 | 6.66 |
| 1987 | 14.77 |
| 1995 | 10.04 |
| 1996 | 15.57 |
| 1997 | 16.83 |
| 1998 | 19.94 |
| 1999 | 16.24 |
| 2000 | 15.56 |
| 2001 | 15.19 |
| 2002 | 13.80 |
| 2003 | 13.53 |
| 2004 | 14.97 |
| 2005 | 9.59 |
| 2006 | 12.06 |
| 2007 | 11.73 |
| 2008 | 7.79 |
| 2009 | 8.93 |
| 2010 | 9.96 |
| 2011 | 9.91 |
| 2012 | 8.84 |
| 2013 | 7.86 |
| 2014 | 9.47 |
| 2015 | 5.63 |
| 2016 | 10.76 |
| 2017 | 10.28 |
| 2018 | 7.24 |
| 2019 | 5.71 |
| 2020 | 8.18 |
| 2021 | 8.49 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
