IDA blend - Food imports
Food imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in IDA blend was 16.38 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 19.66 in 1999 and a minimum value of 11.93 in 2018.
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 | 14.99 |
| 1963 | 17.17 |
| 1964 | 15.28 |
| 1965 | 14.58 |
| 1966 | 13.43 |
| 1967 | 15.77 |
| 1968 | 13.88 |
| 1970 | 15.52 |
| 1971 | 14.29 |
| 1972 | 19.50 |
| 1973 | 17.49 |
| 1974 | 16.68 |
| 1975 | 16.41 |
| 1976 | 14.68 |
| 1977 | 14.42 |
| 1978 | 15.97 |
| 1979 | 17.35 |
| 1981 | 13.76 |
| 1983 | 16.47 |
| 1984 | 17.79 |
| 1985 | 16.82 |
| 1986 | 15.49 |
| 1987 | 12.13 |
| 1996 | 15.28 |
| 1997 | 17.68 |
| 1998 | 19.03 |
| 1999 | 19.66 |
| 2000 | 16.23 |
| 2001 | 16.04 |
| 2002 | 15.40 |
| 2003 | 14.15 |
| 2006 | 14.15 |
| 2007 | 13.66 |
| 2008 | 11.98 |
| 2009 | 12.96 |
| 2010 | 12.20 |
| 2011 | 19.61 |
| 2012 | 16.25 |
| 2013 | 13.69 |
| 2014 | 14.12 |
| 2015 | 14.00 |
| 2016 | 12.99 |
| 2017 | 15.03 |
| 2018 | 11.93 |
| 2019 | 12.09 |
| 2020 | 16.38 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
