Albania - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Albania was 16.77 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 24 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 34.27 in 1996 and a minimum value of 10.33 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
1996 34.27
1997 27.18
1998 26.94
1999 27.36
2000 21.83
2001 19.38
2002 20.17
2003 19.63
2004 19.26
2005 16.24
2006 19.97
2007 16.43
2008 16.43
2009 17.09
2010 17.95
2011 16.63
2012 17.31
2013 17.72
2014 10.33
2015 14.50
2016 14.15
2017 14.86
2018 14.04
2019 14.95
2020 16.77

Limitations and Exceptions: Previous editions contained data based on the SITC revision 1. Data for earlier years in previous editions may differ because of the change in methodology. Concordance tables are available to convert data reported in one system to another.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The classification of commodity groups is based on the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) revision 3.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Merchandise import shares may not sum to 100 percent because of unclassified trade.

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports