Eswatini - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Eswatini was 20.39 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 20 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 20.56 in 2007 and a minimum value of 15.42 in 2013.

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
2000 18.73
2001 17.31
2002 17.65
2003 16.41
2004 16.44
2005 16.81
2006 15.55
2007 20.56
2008 19.57
2009 19.14
2010 19.74
2011 17.06
2012 19.08
2013 15.42
2014 17.19
2015 17.73
2016 18.70
2017 18.48
2018 18.82
2019 18.29
2020 20.39

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports