World - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in World was 9.04 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 20.55 in 1962 and a minimum value of 6.18 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
1962 20.55
1963 19.93
1964 19.14
1965 18.54
1966 18.55
1967 17.58
1968 16.55
1969 15.65
1970 15.35
1971 15.11
1972 14.57
1973 15.06
1974 13.81
1975 14.17
1976 12.74
1977 12.85
1978 12.38
1979 11.41
1980 10.80
1981 10.72
1982 10.58
1983 11.04
1984 10.50
1985 9.53
1986 9.88
1987 9.70
1990 8.65
1991 8.97
1992 8.62
1993 8.23
1994 8.47
1995 8.44
1996 8.60
1997 8.03
1998 8.16
1999 7.91
2000 6.97
2001 7.28
2002 7.41
2003 7.39
2004 6.88
2005 6.49
2006 6.18
2007 6.53
2008 6.82
2009 7.81
2010 7.39
2011 7.54
2012 7.50
2013 7.75
2014 7.93
2015 8.35
2016 8.64
2017 8.49
2018 8.06
2019 8.16
2020 9.04

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports