Costa Rica - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Costa Rica was 14.75 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 55 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 14.75 in 2020 and a minimum value of 6.28 in 2005.

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
1965 9.46
1966 10.52
1967 11.94
1968 12.82
1969 10.34
1970 10.88
1971 12.22
1972 10.14
1973 10.39
1974 11.48
1975 9.92
1976 8.33
1977 7.58
1978 7.39
1979 7.48
1980 8.81
1981 8.48
1982 8.71
1983 10.30
1984 9.52
1985 8.22
1986 7.66
1987 7.80
1994 10.43
1995 10.18
1996 12.89
1997 9.74
1998 7.87
1999 7.30
2000 7.45
2001 7.51
2002 8.01
2003 7.75
2004 8.59
2005 6.28
2006 6.32
2007 8.00
2008 8.51
2009 7.16
2010 8.97
2011 8.76
2012 10.74
2013 10.45
2014 11.44
2015 11.96
2016 13.26
2017 13.41
2018 12.92
2019 13.18
2020 14.75

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports