Congo - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Congo was 31.31 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 31.31 in 2020 and a minimum value of 4.05 in 2016.

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 19.35
1963 20.06
1964 19.67
1965 15.40
1966 14.77
1967 14.19
1968 14.73
1970 20.11
1971 16.27
1972 18.08
1973 14.54
1974 16.97
1975 16.39
1976 16.51
1977 21.32
1978 22.95
1979 26.93
1980 19.18
1983 14.22
1984 19.03
1985 19.13
1986 18.51
1993 20.41
1994 26.50
1995 20.81
2007 5.63
2008 8.15
2009 8.76
2010 7.02
2011 5.74
2012 6.07
2013 6.85
2014 6.24
2015 5.10
2016 4.05
2017 13.83
2018 15.52
2019 25.05
2020 31.31

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports