Mongolia - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Mongolia was 12.55 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 24 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 17.87 in 2001 and a minimum value of 8.99 in 2014.

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
1996 14.27
1997 16.32
1998 16.52
1999 11.73
2000 16.56
2001 17.87
2003 14.42
2004 15.59
2005 12.97
2006 12.09
2007 11.83
2013 9.08
2014 8.99
2015 12.47
2016 15.11
2017 12.46
2018 11.41
2019 10.39
2020 12.55

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports