European Union - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in European Union was 8.96 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 21.93 in 1962 and a minimum value of 7.32 in 2006.

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 21.93
1963 19.02
1964 17.78
1965 18.46
1966 18.56
1967 17.58
1968 16.47
1969 15.75
1970 14.97
1971 16.27
1972 15.50
1973 15.69
1974 13.22
1975 14.26
1976 13.41
1977 14.79
1978 14.35
1979 12.94
1980 11.70
1981 11.90
1982 12.20
1983 12.29
1984 12.05
1985 11.79
1986 12.39
1987 11.87
1988 11.81
1989 10.68
1990 10.43
1991 10.73
1992 11.02
1993 11.17
1994 11.16
1995 10.52
1996 10.38
1997 9.60
1998 9.35
1999 8.96
2000 7.51
2001 7.98
2002 8.30
2003 8.27
2004 7.81
2005 7.69
2006 7.32
2007 7.56
2008 8.10
2009 9.49
2010 8.79
2011 8.93
2012 9.24
2013 9.67
2014 9.67
2015 9.97
2016 10.19
2017 9.93
2018 9.38
2019 9.48
2020 10.41
2021 8.96

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports