Ireland - Food imports
Food imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Ireland was 10.84 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 19.09 in 1965 and a minimum value of 6.29 in 2000.
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 | 19.03 |
| 1964 | 17.88 |
| 1965 | 19.09 |
| 1966 | 18.39 |
| 1967 | 17.60 |
| 1968 | 16.87 |
| 1969 | 14.55 |
| 1970 | 14.21 |
| 1971 | 12.69 |
| 1972 | 13.64 |
| 1973 | 13.77 |
| 1974 | 12.93 |
| 1975 | 13.93 |
| 1976 | 12.96 |
| 1977 | 13.52 |
| 1978 | 12.29 |
| 1979 | 12.07 |
| 1980 | 12.12 |
| 1981 | 13.11 |
| 1982 | 12.66 |
| 1983 | 12.98 |
| 1984 | 12.07 |
| 1985 | 12.31 |
| 1986 | 13.03 |
| 1987 | 12.35 |
| 1988 | 12.37 |
| 1989 | 10.98 |
| 1990 | 10.59 |
| 1991 | 11.36 |
| 1992 | 11.64 |
| 1993 | 9.96 |
| 1994 | 9.76 |
| 1995 | 8.47 |
| 1996 | 8.32 |
| 1997 | 7.84 |
| 1998 | 7.20 |
| 1999 | 7.23 |
| 2000 | 6.29 |
| 2001 | 6.81 |
| 2002 | 7.27 |
| 2003 | 8.26 |
| 2004 | 7.94 |
| 2005 | 7.92 |
| 2006 | 8.34 |
| 2007 | 8.99 |
| 2008 | 10.01 |
| 2009 | 11.96 |
| 2010 | 11.37 |
| 2011 | 11.34 |
| 2012 | 11.84 |
| 2013 | 12.68 |
| 2014 | 11.63 |
| 2015 | 11.10 |
| 2016 | 10.55 |
| 2017 | 10.65 |
| 2018 | 9.93 |
| 2019 | 10.04 |
| 2020 | 10.84 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports