Madagascar - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Madagascar was 20.22 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 21.81 in 1974 and a minimum value of 8.54 in 1980.

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 13.98
1963 13.52
1964 13.40
1965 19.66
1966 14.64
1967 11.43
1968 11.24
1969 13.47
1970 12.42
1971 15.11
1972 13.75
1973 18.42
1974 21.81
1975 14.21
1976 14.04
1977 14.55
1978 16.92
1979 15.10
1980 8.54
1981 14.09
1982 16.20
1983 20.01
1984 12.08
1985 12.58
1990 11.18
1991 11.23
1992 13.39
1993 13.98
1994 15.31
1995 16.26
1996 11.41
1997 15.18
1998 14.42
1999 13.67
2000 13.18
2001 14.39
2002 15.95
2003 18.32
2004 14.59
2005 15.36
2006 14.51
2007 14.61
2008 10.60
2009 10.68
2010 13.64
2011 17.80
2012 15.65
2013 17.20
2014 15.95
2015 14.02
2016 15.42
2017 20.15
2018 17.05
2019 14.57
2020 20.22

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports