United Arab Emirates - Food imports
Food imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in United Arab Emirates was 6.83 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 42 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 17.16 in 1991 and a minimum value of 5.04 in 2013.
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 |
|---|---|
| 1978 | 11.01 |
| 1979 | 10.89 |
| 1980 | 11.12 |
| 1981 | 10.65 |
| 1982 | 9.56 |
| 1983 | 12.25 |
| 1991 | 17.16 |
| 1992 | 16.12 |
| 1993 | 14.88 |
| 1999 | 11.26 |
| 2000 | 11.08 |
| 2001 | 9.75 |
| 2002 | 7.76 |
| 2003 | 7.39 |
| 2004 | 6.42 |
| 2005 | 6.65 |
| 2006 | 6.40 |
| 2007 | 6.02 |
| 2008 | 6.06 |
| 2009 | 6.14 |
| 2010 | 6.01 |
| 2011 | 6.51 |
| 2012 | 5.89 |
| 2013 | 5.04 |
| 2014 | 5.53 |
| 2015 | 5.79 |
| 2016 | 5.91 |
| 2017 | 7.00 |
| 2018 | 7.31 |
| 2019 | 6.18 |
| 2020 | 6.83 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
