Korea - Food imports
Food imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Korea was 6.74 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 22.54 in 1963 and a minimum value of 4.22 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 |
|---|---|
| 1962 | 13.91 |
| 1963 | 22.54 |
| 1964 | 18.16 |
| 1965 | 15.06 |
| 1966 | 13.52 |
| 1967 | 10.66 |
| 1968 | 12.19 |
| 1969 | 17.58 |
| 1970 | 17.22 |
| 1971 | 18.23 |
| 1972 | 15.58 |
| 1973 | 15.01 |
| 1974 | 13.23 |
| 1975 | 14.16 |
| 1976 | 8.73 |
| 1977 | 8.20 |
| 1978 | 7.78 |
| 1979 | 8.95 |
| 1980 | 9.85 |
| 1981 | 12.04 |
| 1982 | 7.77 |
| 1983 | 7.92 |
| 1984 | 6.75 |
| 1985 | 5.77 |
| 1986 | 5.74 |
| 1987 | 5.00 |
| 1988 | 5.56 |
| 1989 | 6.15 |
| 1990 | 5.60 |
| 1991 | 5.82 |
| 1992 | 6.12 |
| 1993 | 5.81 |
| 1994 | 5.75 |
| 1995 | 5.43 |
| 1996 | 5.91 |
| 1997 | 5.62 |
| 1998 | 6.06 |
| 1999 | 5.58 |
| 2000 | 4.81 |
| 2001 | 5.66 |
| 2002 | 5.95 |
| 2003 | 5.52 |
| 2004 | 4.89 |
| 2005 | 4.44 |
| 2006 | 4.22 |
| 2007 | 4.42 |
| 2008 | 4.48 |
| 2009 | 4.94 |
| 2010 | 4.51 |
| 2011 | 4.84 |
| 2012 | 4.79 |
| 2013 | 4.90 |
| 2014 | 5.14 |
| 2015 | 5.94 |
| 2016 | 6.42 |
| 2017 | 5.92 |
| 2018 | 5.82 |
| 2019 | 6.18 |
| 2020 | 6.74 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
