New Zealand - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in New Zealand was 11.37 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 13.42 in 2020 and a minimum value of 5.79 in 1981.

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
1964 8.89
1965 7.66
1966 6.62
1967 7.02
1968 7.43
1969 6.52
1970 6.90
1971 7.06
1972 7.19
1973 7.29
1974 7.07
1975 7.26
1976 6.23
1977 6.73
1978 7.02
1979 6.20
1980 5.98
1981 5.79
1982 6.72
1983 6.29
1984 6.49
1985 6.22
1986 6.47
1987 6.72
1988 7.71
1989 7.44
1990 6.78
1991 7.82
1992 7.26
1993 7.75
1994 7.51
1995 7.45
1996 7.61
1997 7.77
1998 9.20
1999 7.78
2000 7.73
2001 8.35
2002 8.55
2003 8.16
2004 7.59
2005 7.65
2006 8.10
2007 8.58
2008 9.36
2009 10.68
2010 10.61
2011 10.54
2012 10.65
2013 10.64
2014 10.77
2015 11.36
2016 11.44
2017 11.53
2018 11.33
2019 11.53
2020 13.42
2021 11.37

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports