Malta - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Malta was 12.96 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 55 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 33.67 in 1965 and a minimum value of 8.42 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
1965 33.67
1966 33.42
1967 32.47
1968 29.29
1969 27.42
1970 26.03
1971 29.73
1972 28.57
1973 30.14
1974 27.17
1975 26.84
1976 24.17
1977 21.88
1978 21.67
1979 20.09
1980 19.36
1981 17.84
1982 18.20
1983 16.80
1984 17.14
1985 16.42
1986 14.56
1987 13.57
1990 10.25
1991 10.54
1992 10.28
1993 9.91
1994 8.98
1995 10.12
1996 10.84
1997 11.99
1998 11.21
1999 10.59
2000 8.42
2001 10.91
2002 11.52
2003 11.28
2004 10.73
2005 11.60
2006 10.79
2007 13.25
2008 14.68
2009 15.46
2010 10.72
2011 9.30
2012 9.44
2013 10.33
2014 9.44
2015 10.16
2016 10.35
2017 12.04
2018 12.22
2019 10.07
2020 12.96

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