Benin - 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
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

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