Lao PDR - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Lao PDR was 19.13 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 40.89 in 1966 and a minimum value of 4.17 in 2014.

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 37.13
1963 30.45
1964 30.94
1965 32.00
1966 40.89
1967 38.10
1968 38.49
1969 31.35
1970 23.85
1971 25.35
1972 33.85
1973 33.23
1974 31.67
2010 11.35
2011 7.13
2012 6.18
2013 4.17
2014 4.17
2015 5.26
2016 13.25
2017 12.08
2018 12.38
2019 15.68
2020 19.13

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports