IDA total - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in IDA total was 14.19 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 42 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 17.25 in 1998 and a minimum value of 13.70 in 2005.

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
1977 13.89
1978 15.97
1997 16.47
1998 17.25
2000 15.74
2001 16.37
2002 16.26
2003 16.77
2004 14.96
2005 13.70
2006 14.50
2007 14.93
2008 14.12
2009 15.33
2010 14.18
2011 17.02
2012 14.86
2013 14.00
2014 14.48
2015 14.78
2016 15.06
2017 15.98
2018 14.70
2019 14.19

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports