Russia - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Russia was 12.07 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 24 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 23.21 in 1998 and a minimum value of 11.06 in 2017.

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 18.00
1997 18.96
1998 23.21
1999 18.73
2000 20.23
2001 20.48
2002 20.87
2003 19.32
2004 16.53
2005 16.09
2006 14.36
2007 12.62
2008 12.05
2009 15.98
2010 14.14
2011 12.33
2012 12.35
2013 13.26
2014 13.47
2015 13.88
2016 11.86
2017 11.06
2018 11.87
2019 11.70
2020 12.07

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