Chile - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Chile was 9.59 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 32.66 in 1974 and a minimum value of 4.10 in 2006.

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 19.38
1963 21.44
1964 20.71
1965 20.07
1966 18.51
1967 16.77
1968 17.21
1969 16.97
1970 14.64
1971 17.73
1972 23.42
1973 25.82
1974 32.66
1975 18.53
1976 25.57
1977 12.42
1978 16.67
1979 12.70
1980 15.03
1981 11.97
1982 16.21
1983 17.98
1984 13.54
1985 8.31
1986 5.08
1987 4.81
1990 4.39
1991 5.80
1992 6.32
1993 5.99
1994 6.94
1995 6.72
1996 7.17
1997 6.73
1998 7.31
1999 8.62
2000 7.39
2001 7.36
2002 7.97
2003 7.82
2004 6.93
2005 5.81
2006 4.10
2007 6.65
2008 6.77
2009 7.32
2010 7.11
2011 7.36
2012 7.38
2013 7.66
2014 8.39
2015 9.19
2016 9.60
2017 9.93
2018 9.57
2019 10.11
2020 12.56
2021 9.59

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports