Maldives - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Maldives was 19.46 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 24 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 25.60 in 1996 and a minimum value of 15.56 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
1995 23.95
1996 25.60
1997 22.80
1998 24.37
1999 23.38
2000 23.62
2001 23.01
2002 22.63
2003 20.94
2004 18.27
2005 15.56
2006 15.96
2007 16.58
2008 15.87
2009 22.22
2010 22.35
2011 20.96
2012 21.18
2013 22.50
2014 21.03
2015 22.09
2016 20.93
2017 20.12
2018 17.26
2019 19.46

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports