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
