Low income - 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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2000
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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

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