IDA blend - 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.

See also:

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

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