Australia - Food imports
Food imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Australia was 6.44 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 7.61 in 2020 and a minimum value of 4.55 in 2000.
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 |
|---|---|
| 1963 | 6.42 |
| 1964 | 5.93 |
| 1965 | 5.71 |
| 1966 | 5.66 |
| 1967 | 5.71 |
| 1968 | 5.56 |
| 1969 | 5.68 |
| 1970 | 5.59 |
| 1971 | 5.59 |
| 1972 | 6.13 |
| 1973 | 5.71 |
| 1974 | 5.71 |
| 1975 | 5.04 |
| 1976 | 5.33 |
| 1977 | 6.57 |
| 1978 | 5.87 |
| 1979 | 5.46 |
| 1980 | 5.20 |
| 1981 | 4.56 |
| 1982 | 4.57 |
| 1983 | 5.71 |
| 1984 | 5.55 |
| 1985 | 5.26 |
| 1986 | 5.34 |
| 1987 | 5.47 |
| 1988 | 5.22 |
| 1989 | 4.80 |
| 1990 | 5.03 |
| 1991 | 5.22 |
| 1992 | 5.04 |
| 1993 | 4.99 |
| 1994 | 5.00 |
| 1995 | 4.96 |
| 1996 | 4.85 |
| 1997 | 4.91 |
| 1998 | 4.74 |
| 1999 | 4.80 |
| 2000 | 4.55 |
| 2001 | 4.94 |
| 2002 | 4.87 |
| 2003 | 5.13 |
| 2004 | 4.80 |
| 2005 | 4.74 |
| 2006 | 4.77 |
| 2007 | 5.04 |
| 2008 | 4.81 |
| 2009 | 5.59 |
| 2010 | 5.31 |
| 2011 | 5.14 |
| 2012 | 5.05 |
| 2013 | 5.69 |
| 2014 | 6.20 |
| 2015 | 6.56 |
| 2016 | 7.10 |
| 2017 | 6.48 |
| 2018 | 6.52 |
| 2019 | 7.16 |
| 2020 | 7.61 |
| 2021 | 6.44 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
