Netherlands - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Netherlands was 12.07 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 29.73 in 1962 and a minimum value of 8.46 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 29.73
1963 16.62
1964 16.41
1965 16.18
1966 15.83
1967 16.21
1968 16.12
1969 16.03
1970 15.15
1971 14.99
1972 15.82
1973 16.83
1974 15.57
1975 16.26
1976 15.61
1977 16.13
1978 16.06
1979 15.34
1980 15.02
1981 15.51
1982 15.81
1983 15.57
1984 15.52
1985 14.90
1986 14.93
1987 14.94
1988 15.72
1989 13.29
1990 12.62
1991 13.19
1992 13.98
1993 14.57
1994 15.10
1995 13.93
1996 13.59
1997 11.01
1998 11.40
1999 11.20
2000 8.60
2001 8.77
2002 9.76
2003 10.27
2004 9.41
2005 8.86
2006 8.46
2007 9.13
2008 9.90
2009 10.93
2010 9.96
2011 11.72
2012 11.76
2013 12.27
2014 12.29
2015 13.23
2016 13.41
2017 13.11
2018 12.23
2019 12.20
2020 13.48
2021 12.07

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports