Ghana - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Ghana was 17.41 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 23.44 in 1973 and a minimum value of 5.85 in 1997.

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
1962 20.83
1963 15.73
1964 18.30
1965 12.79
1966 17.67
1967 19.34
1968 19.12
1969 17.68
1970 20.85
1971 16.38
1972 20.32
1973 23.44
1974 17.29
1975 13.42
1976 14.37
1977 9.08
1978 11.66
1979 9.76
1980 10.09
1981 8.82
1982 11.16
1983 14.66
1984 7.72
1992 11.19
1996 7.91
1997 5.85
1998 10.23
1999 11.73
2000 12.76
2001 18.20
2002 19.56
2003 16.10
2004 20.78
2005 13.90
2006 13.45
2007 14.40
2008 14.76
2009 16.34
2010 15.33
2011 15.40
2012 13.87
2013 16.82
2014 20.71
2015 15.16
2016 14.60
2017 18.29
2018 20.07
2019 17.41

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