Zimbabwe - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Zimbabwe was 19.50 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 36 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 23.68 in 2004 and a minimum value of 2.23 in 1991.

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
1984 8.12
1985 4.96
1986 3.27
1990 3.68
1991 2.23
1992 17.77
1993 11.15
1994 4.83
1995 5.98
1996 10.34
1997 7.15
1999 8.79
2000 7.69
2001 5.14
2002 13.20
2003 21.01
2004 23.68
2005 12.80
2006 20.89
2007 11.38
2008 19.46
2009 13.21
2010 17.91
2011 14.69
2012 18.38
2013 14.63
2014 15.36
2015 17.01
2016 19.94
2017 14.89
2018 11.89
2019 8.06
2020 19.50

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