Fragile and conflict affected situations - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Fragile and conflict affected situations was 13.33 as of 2014. As the graph below shows, over the past 51 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 19.38 in 1974 and a minimum value of 12.34 in 2008.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1963 16.55
1972 15.83
1973 17.38
1974 19.38
1975 15.91
1976 13.83
2000 12.97
2001 13.24
2002 13.63
2007 15.34
2008 12.34
2009 15.08
2010 14.24
2011 18.52
2014 13.33

Limitations and Exceptions: Previous editions contained data based on the SITC revision 1. Data for earlier years in previous editions may differ because of the change in methodology. Concordance tables are available to convert data reported in one system to another.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The classification of commodity groups is based on the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) revision 3.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Merchandise import shares may not sum to 100 percent because of unclassified trade.

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports