Iraq - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Iraq was 7.20 as of 2014. As the graph below shows, over the past 51 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 28.68 in 1974 and a minimum value of 1.08 in 2001.

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 21.44
1972 19.62
1973 23.96
1974 28.68
1975 17.51
1976 14.94
2000 1.53
2001 1.08
2002 1.56
2007 18.76
2008 3.88
2014 7.20

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports