Niger - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Niger was 29.77 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 45.44 in 2001 and a minimum value of 9.93 in 1976.

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 24.25
1963 20.05
1964 15.00
1965 13.37
1966 14.18
1967 16.21
1968 13.63
1969 13.44
1970 14.18
1971 13.00
1972 15.91
1973 20.00
1974 22.28
1975 21.61
1976 9.93
1977 12.08
1978 17.13
1979 11.81
1981 23.52
1995 32.36
1996 43.45
1997 38.40
1998 38.62
1999 34.52
2000 38.55
2001 45.44
2002 37.87
2003 33.34
2004 30.99
2005 34.21
2006 27.85
2007 23.63
2008 24.88
2009 15.55
2010 15.12
2011 15.83
2012 31.72
2013 32.86
2014 24.79
2015 20.99
2016 25.13
2017 33.12
2018 28.16
2019 27.69
2020 29.77

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports