El Salvador - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in El Salvador was 17.64 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 22.39 in 2020 and a minimum value of 10.31 in 1977.

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
1963 16.44
1964 14.79
1965 15.66
1966 16.32
1967 14.76
1968 17.63
1969 15.45
1970 13.91
1971 12.57
1972 10.64
1973 12.15
1974 10.34
1975 12.18
1976 11.19
1977 10.31
1978 11.52
1979 12.80
1980 17.73
1981 16.48
1982 17.89
1983 17.00
1984 12.97
1985 15.51
1986 12.55
1987 14.43
1994 15.11
1995 14.76
1996 17.00
1997 16.82
1998 16.46
1999 18.53
2000 12.37
2001 12.80
2002 13.50
2003 13.48
2004 13.68
2005 13.75
2006 13.58
2007 14.38
2008 15.02
2009 17.66
2010 16.70
2011 16.85
2012 16.17
2013 15.30
2014 16.38
2015 17.26
2016 18.36
2017 16.96
2018 16.96
2019 18.47
2020 22.39
2021 17.64

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports