China - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in China was 8.27 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 36 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 9.03 in 1984 and a minimum value of 2.87 in 1993.

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
1984 9.03
1985 4.10
1986 4.39
1987 7.34
1992 4.89
1993 2.87
1994 4.39
1995 6.99
1996 5.90
1997 5.04
1998 4.77
1999 4.06
2000 4.14
2001 3.98
2002 3.53
2003 3.86
2004 4.04
2005 3.56
2006 3.19
2007 3.72
2008 4.76
2009 4.92
2010 4.62
2011 4.65
2012 5.41
2013 5.50
2014 5.82
2015 6.66
2016 6.80
2017 6.61
2018 6.18
2019 7.07
2020 8.27

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports