Low income - Food imports
Food imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Low income was 17.25 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 18 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 20.32 in 2003 and a minimum value of 13.44 in 2007.
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 |
|---|---|
| 2001 | 18.11 |
| 2002 | 17.69 |
| 2003 | 20.32 |
| 2004 | 16.62 |
| 2005 | 16.11 |
| 2007 | 13.44 |
| 2008 | 14.89 |
| 2009 | 15.91 |
| 2010 | 16.39 |
| 2011 | 16.51 |
| 2015 | 16.89 |
| 2018 | 19.53 |
| 2019 | 17.25 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
