Upper middle income - Food imports
Food imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Upper middle income was 8.84 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 36 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 9.81 in 1984 and a minimum value of 5.09 in 2006.
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 |
|---|---|
| 1984 | 9.81 |
| 1985 | 6.69 |
| 1986 | 6.97 |
| 1987 | 8.08 |
| 1992 | 6.68 |
| 1993 | 5.29 |
| 1994 | 6.03 |
| 1995 | 7.19 |
| 1996 | 7.68 |
| 1997 | 7.12 |
| 1998 | 7.20 |
| 1999 | 6.49 |
| 2000 | 6.06 |
| 2001 | 6.22 |
| 2002 | 6.16 |
| 2003 | 6.37 |
| 2004 | 6.07 |
| 2005 | 5.50 |
| 2006 | 5.09 |
| 2007 | 5.73 |
| 2008 | 6.21 |
| 2009 | 6.81 |
| 2010 | 6.33 |
| 2011 | 6.31 |
| 2012 | 6.59 |
| 2013 | 6.72 |
| 2014 | 6.97 |
| 2015 | 7.53 |
| 2016 | 7.93 |
| 2017 | 7.72 |
| 2018 | 7.28 |
| 2019 | 7.71 |
| 2020 | 8.84 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
