Kenya - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Kenya was 15.98 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 45 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 19.79 in 1994 and a minimum value of 5.84 in 1977.

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
1976 7.87
1977 5.84
1978 6.86
1979 6.32
1980 7.73
1981 6.13
1982 7.71
1983 9.45
1984 12.20
1985 9.70
1986 9.27
1987 7.19
1990 9.33
1991 9.77
1992 16.98
1993 13.61
1994 19.79
1995 10.09
1996 12.03
1997 16.68
1998 14.42
1999 11.88
2000 13.95
2001 13.37
2002 11.27
2003 12.19
2004 10.39
2005 9.48
2006 9.23
2007 11.01
2008 11.64
2009 15.40
2010 12.05
2013 10.72
2015 11.28
2016 12.36
2017 18.90
2018 14.05
2019 14.62
2020 16.84
2021 15.98

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports