Sierra Leone - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Sierra Leone was 32.29 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 55 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 32.72 in 2000 and a minimum value of 10.97 in 2014.

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
1963 21.75
1964 18.09
1972 22.33
1973 28.50
1974 25.59
1975 20.19
1976 21.98
1983 27.57
1984 20.73
2000 32.72
2002 22.53
2014 10.97
2015 20.72
2016 28.48
2017 32.57
2018 32.29

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports