Canada - Food imports
Food imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Canada was 8.74 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 12.92 in 1963 and a minimum value of 5.10 in 2000.
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 | 11.66 |
| 1963 | 12.92 |
| 1964 | 11.62 |
| 1965 | 9.81 |
| 1966 | 9.01 |
| 1967 | 8.62 |
| 1968 | 7.88 |
| 1969 | 8.00 |
| 1970 | 8.64 |
| 1971 | 7.92 |
| 1972 | 7.85 |
| 1973 | 8.94 |
| 1974 | 8.61 |
| 1975 | 8.30 |
| 1976 | 8.15 |
| 1977 | 8.37 |
| 1978 | 8.11 |
| 1979 | 7.29 |
| 1980 | 7.45 |
| 1981 | 7.03 |
| 1982 | 7.68 |
| 1983 | 7.01 |
| 1984 | 6.53 |
| 1985 | 5.94 |
| 1986 | 6.19 |
| 1987 | 6.05 |
| 1988 | 5.60 |
| 1989 | 5.74 |
| 1990 | 6.13 |
| 1991 | 6.38 |
| 1992 | 6.35 |
| 1993 | 6.26 |
| 1994 | 6.02 |
| 1995 | 5.70 |
| 1996 | 5.81 |
| 1997 | 5.53 |
| 1998 | 5.55 |
| 1999 | 5.31 |
| 2000 | 5.10 |
| 2001 | 5.82 |
| 2002 | 6.06 |
| 2003 | 6.20 |
| 2004 | 5.81 |
| 2005 | 5.63 |
| 2006 | 5.76 |
| 2007 | 6.17 |
| 2008 | 6.44 |
| 2009 | 7.92 |
| 2010 | 7.18 |
| 2011 | 7.11 |
| 2012 | 7.24 |
| 2013 | 7.46 |
| 2014 | 7.72 |
| 2015 | 8.18 |
| 2016 | 8.47 |
| 2017 | 8.20 |
| 2018 | 7.93 |
| 2019 | 8.16 |
| 2020 | 9.35 |
| 2021 | 8.74 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
