Benin - Agricultural raw materials imports

Agricultural raw materials imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Agricultural raw materials imports (% of merchandise imports) in Benin was 1.36 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 6.53 in 1999 and a minimum value of 0.52 in 1965.

Definition: Agricultural raw materials comprise SITC section 2 (crude materials except fuels) excluding divisions 22, 27 (crude fertilizers and minerals excluding coal, petroleum, and precious stones), and 28 (metalliferous ores and scrap).

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 0.68
1963 0.78
1964 0.57
1965 0.52
1966 0.61
1967 0.67
1968 1.20
1969 1.65
1970 1.82
1971 3.85
1972 3.98
1973 2.28
1974 1.32
1979 1.11
1980 1.40
1982 0.64
1998 4.98
1999 6.53
2000 5.34
2001 5.08
2002 5.29
2003 3.98
2004 3.66
2005 4.22
2006 4.59
2007 3.51
2008 3.56
2009 3.52
2010 2.64
2011 2.62
2012 2.91
2013 2.46
2014 1.93
2015 2.51
2016 1.12
2017 0.80
2018 1.00
2019 1.13
2020 1.16
2021 1.36

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports