Nepal - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Nepal was 16.86 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 45 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 18.43 in 2013 and a minimum value of 2.93 in 1975.

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
1974 9.82
1975 2.93
1976 6.08
1977 3.82
1978 7.87
1979 4.07
1980 4.33
1981 9.55
1982 10.68
1983 16.07
1984 14.63
1985 13.98
1986 13.93
1987 8.47
1994 10.74
1998 8.39
1999 15.75
2000 11.86
2003 17.27
2009 14.69
2010 13.65
2011 14.18
2012 16.85
2013 18.43
2014 17.94
2015 17.91
2016 18.23
2017 17.64
2018 15.20
2019 16.86

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports