West Bank and Gaza - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in West Bank and Gaza was 33.69 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 20 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 33.69 in 2020 and a minimum value of 18.36 in 2008.

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
2000 23.33
2001 25.81
2002 27.70
2003 27.29
2004 25.53
2005 21.88
2006 22.52
2007 19.91
2008 18.36
2009 21.32
2010 22.49
2011 22.06
2012 23.86
2013 24.96
2014 24.39
2015 27.29
2016 28.32
2017 27.87
2018 29.18
2019 30.24
2020 33.69

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports