Malaysia - Food imports
Food imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Malaysia was 8.95 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 56 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 29.92 in 1964 and a minimum value of 4.34 in 2000.
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 |
|---|---|
| 1964 | 29.92 |
| 1965 | 27.19 |
| 1966 | 25.76 |
| 1967 | 26.64 |
| 1968 | 25.02 |
| 1969 | 23.80 |
| 1970 | 21.53 |
| 1971 | 20.19 |
| 1972 | 20.76 |
| 1973 | 20.80 |
| 1974 | 17.99 |
| 1975 | 18.20 |
| 1976 | 16.67 |
| 1977 | 16.72 |
| 1978 | 16.44 |
| 1979 | 13.55 |
| 1980 | 11.87 |
| 1981 | 12.87 |
| 1982 | 11.66 |
| 1983 | 11.23 |
| 1984 | 11.45 |
| 1985 | 11.76 |
| 1986 | 12.18 |
| 1987 | 11.18 |
| 1988 | 10.64 |
| 1989 | 8.96 |
| 1990 | 6.91 |
| 1991 | 6.35 |
| 1992 | 6.52 |
| 1993 | 6.00 |
| 1994 | 5.23 |
| 1995 | 4.78 |
| 1996 | 5.25 |
| 1997 | 5.37 |
| 1998 | 5.68 |
| 1999 | 5.43 |
| 2000 | 4.34 |
| 2001 | 5.25 |
| 2002 | 5.73 |
| 2003 | 5.05 |
| 2004 | 5.51 |
| 2005 | 5.17 |
| 2006 | 5.22 |
| 2007 | 5.89 |
| 2008 | 7.04 |
| 2009 | 8.03 |
| 2010 | 7.77 |
| 2011 | 8.81 |
| 2012 | 8.42 |
| 2013 | 7.59 |
| 2014 | 7.92 |
| 2015 | 8.75 |
| 2016 | 8.69 |
| 2017 | 7.99 |
| 2018 | 7.47 |
| 2019 | 7.74 |
| 2020 | 8.95 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
