Morocco - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Morocco was 14.60 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 36.47 in 1965 and a minimum value of 9.31 in 2006.

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 29.37
1963 25.52
1964 30.83
1965 36.47
1966 32.38
1967 31.49
1968 26.67
1969 18.57
1970 20.66
1971 24.83
1972 21.57
1973 27.79
1974 28.19
1975 29.61
1976 19.95
1977 16.98
1978 19.81
1979 19.19
1980 19.79
1981 23.43
1982 16.30
1983 17.64
1984 20.54
1985 17.50
1986 15.89
1987 13.45
1993 17.12
1994 14.48
1995 19.53
1996 18.89
1997 16.62
1998 14.19
1999 13.27
2000 13.74
2001 14.37
2002 14.01
2003 11.02
2004 10.91
2005 10.55
2006 9.31
2007 12.27
2008 11.80
2009 11.24
2010 11.47
2011 12.64
2012 12.46
2013 10.78
2014 12.21
2015 11.02
2016 12.31
2017 11.29
2018 10.83
2019 10.93
2020 14.60

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