Portugal - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Portugal was 14.10 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 23.08 in 1975 and a minimum value of 10.22 in 2004.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1962 14.49
1963 15.85
1964 16.00
1965 16.48
1966 17.32
1967 18.96
1968 15.70
1969 14.92
1970 13.66
1971 15.43
1972 17.21
1973 16.59
1974 19.46
1975 23.08
1976 19.98
1977 17.89
1978 16.54
1979 16.99
1980 13.67
1981 15.75
1982 14.03
1983 14.37
1984 17.06
1985 14.82
1986 13.43
1987 13.23
1988 12.67
1989 12.09
1990 11.51
1991 12.81
1992 12.19
1993 13.64
1994 14.25
1995 13.59
1996 13.35
1997 12.54
1998 12.54
1999 12.34
2000 11.23
2001 12.13
2002 12.50
2003 12.65
2004 10.22
2005 11.38
2006 11.36
2007 12.10
2008 12.31
2009 14.46
2010 13.59
2011 14.62
2012 15.08
2013 15.49
2014 14.64
2015 15.03
2016 15.30
2017 14.83
2018 14.14
2019 13.64
2020 15.36
2021 14.10

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