Cameroon - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Cameroon was 20.04 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 56 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 26.83 in 2009 and a minimum value of 8.61 in 1980.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1962 18.54
1963 14.26
1964 14.84
1965 12.49
1966 11.91
1967 12.18
1968 14.56
1969 11.91
1970 19.70
1971 13.54
1972 12.05
1973 12.91
1974 14.05
1975 10.95
1976 9.81
1977 12.12
1978 9.56
1979 9.94
1980 8.61
1982 9.71
1986 15.42
1987 14.67
1990 18.54
1995 17.44
1996 13.73
1997 15.68
1998 15.42
1999 18.93
2000 18.16
2001 15.46
2002 18.06
2003 17.61
2004 18.32
2005 17.35
2006 17.96
2007 21.35
2008 23.79
2009 26.83
2010 17.70
2011 25.10
2012 19.38
2013 22.27
2014 17.39
2015 19.87
2016 21.95
2017 22.81
2018 20.04

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