United Kingdom - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in United Kingdom was 9.44 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 37.11 in 1962 and a minimum value of 7.77 in 2000.

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
1962 37.11
1963 36.81
1964 34.00
1965 31.65
1966 30.61
1967 28.95
1968 25.48
1969 24.60
1970 24.24
1971 23.65
1972 22.41
1973 21.01
1974 17.90
1975 19.29
1976 17.31
1977 17.87
1978 16.34
1979 14.71
1980 13.18
1981 14.10
1982 13.82
1983 12.96
1984 12.32
1985 11.90
1986 12.49
1987 11.53
1988 10.52
1989 9.90
1990 10.28
1991 11.15
1992 11.18
1993 10.78
1994 10.26
1995 10.06
1996 10.07
1997 9.45
1998 9.34
1999 8.96
2000 7.77
2001 8.19
2002 8.50
2003 8.96
2004 8.81
2005 8.80
2006 8.14
2007 8.54
2008 8.97
2009 9.70
2010 9.02
2011 9.03
2012 8.80
2013 9.87
2014 9.71
2015 9.78
2016 9.27
2017 9.61
2018 9.66
2019 9.15
2020 10.11
2021 9.44

Limitations and Exceptions: Previous editions contained data based on the SITC revision 1. Data for earlier years in previous editions may differ because of the change in methodology. Concordance tables are available to convert data reported in one system to another.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The classification of commodity groups is based on the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) revision 3.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Merchandise import shares may not sum to 100 percent because of unclassified trade.

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports