Kyrgyz Republic - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Kyrgyz Republic was 14.86 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 26 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 20.88 in 1996 and a minimum value of 11.11 in 2018.

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
1995 18.34
1996 20.88
1998 13.80
1999 13.61
2000 14.44
2001 12.26
2002 13.08
2003 12.78
2004 13.46
2005 15.00
2006 14.36
2007 15.36
2008 13.08
2009 16.88
2010 16.87
2011 16.62
2012 14.51
2013 14.07
2014 14.73
2015 13.94
2016 11.90
2017 14.07
2018 11.11
2019 13.32
2020 15.56
2021 14.86

Limitations and Exceptions: Previous editions contained data based on the SITC revision 1. Data for earlier years in previous editions may differ because of the change in methodology. Concordance tables are available to convert data reported in one system to another.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The classification of commodity groups is based on the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) revision 3.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Merchandise import shares may not sum to 100 percent because of unclassified trade.

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports