Central Europe and the Baltics - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Central Europe and the Baltics was 7.33 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 28 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 9.68 in 1993 and a minimum value of 5.56 in 2003.

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
1993 9.68
1994 9.19
1995 8.51
1996 8.50
1997 7.54
1998 7.26
1999 6.53
2000 5.84
2001 5.99
2002 5.69
2003 5.56
2004 5.67
2005 5.90
2006 5.64
2007 5.94
2008 6.38
2009 7.97
2010 7.30
2011 7.30
2012 7.64
2013 7.88
2014 7.70
2015 7.88
2016 8.23
2017 8.03
2018 7.63
2019 7.99
2020 8.67
2021 7.33

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports