Iran - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Iran was 25.56 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 55 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 27.11 in 2013 and a minimum value of 1.86 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
1963 12.80
1964 16.19
1965 16.11
1966 9.91
1967 7.46
1968 8.04
1969 4.92
1970 6.55
1971 10.65
1972 10.55
1973 10.49
1974 18.38
1975 16.26
1976 11.10
1977 12.70
1997 20.88
1998 16.22
1999 20.44
2000 18.97
2001 16.07
2002 9.91
2003 10.49
2004 8.93
2005 7.89
2006 1.86
2010 15.23
2011 14.13
2013 27.11
2014 23.38
2015 22.40
2016 20.49
2017 20.19
2018 25.56

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports