Burundi - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Burundi was 14.65 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 55 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 30.13 in 2012 and a minimum value of 6.49 in 2005.

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
1965 17.52
1974 21.57
1975 16.19
1976 19.04
1993 15.04
1994 22.15
1995 20.91
1996 15.86
1997 18.39
1998 19.60
1999 11.16
2000 22.95
2001 13.10
2002 11.15
2003 15.62
2004 9.00
2005 6.49
2006 22.17
2007 12.43
2008 11.20
2009 12.54
2010 13.68
2011 24.68
2012 30.13
2013 13.99
2014 13.06
2015 12.62
2016 16.55
2017 18.96
2018 16.75
2019 15.59
2020 14.65

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports