Mauritania - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Mauritania was 29.73 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 29.73 in 2020 and a minimum value of 4.97 in 1963.

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 5.98
1963 4.97
1964 8.27
1965 8.70
1966 14.28
1967 17.14
1968 25.70
1970 23.41
1971 24.01
1972 22.63
2000 18.68
2001 18.37
2002 21.85
2003 24.44
2004 10.78
2005 10.23
2006 25.03
2007 25.48
2008 28.23
2009 29.07
2010 19.40
2011 14.47
2012 15.23
2013 11.02
2014 12.05
2015 14.31
2016 18.16
2017 13.82
2018 18.24
2019 18.01
2020 29.73

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports