Benin - Food imports
Food imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Benin was 37.58 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 52.31 in 2017 and a minimum value of 17.16 in 1971.
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 |
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1962 | 26.37 |
1963 | 22.63 |
1964 | 24.37 |
1965 | 22.80 |
1966 | 24.69 |
1967 | 21.84 |
1968 | 21.80 |
1969 | 19.56 |
1970 | 17.82 |
1971 | 17.16 |
1972 | 20.94 |
1973 | 21.83 |
1974 | 17.85 |
1979 | 23.42 |
1980 | 26.27 |
1982 | 24.92 |
1998 | 24.84 |
1999 | 22.97 |
2000 | 21.87 |
2001 | 20.36 |
2002 | 23.88 |
2003 | 24.21 |
2004 | 24.57 |
2005 | 29.94 |
2006 | 30.68 |
2007 | 31.16 |
2008 | 36.14 |
2009 | 31.09 |
2010 | 38.64 |
2011 | 33.92 |
2012 | 37.89 |
2013 | 40.33 |
2014 | 45.85 |
2015 | 40.20 |
2016 | 50.49 |
2017 | 52.31 |
2018 | 46.98 |
2019 | 38.05 |
2020 | 32.82 |
2021 | 37.58 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports