Seychelles - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Seychelles was 18.63 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 49 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 33.14 in 1974 and a minimum value of 10.14 in 2000.

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
1971 28.83
1972 24.19
1973 28.14
1974 33.14
1975 29.45
1976 24.60
1977 24.28
1978 24.33
1979 18.79
1980 20.86
1981 20.72
1982 21.40
1983 19.03
1984 20.78
1985 17.89
1986 19.62
1987 21.80
1992 21.88
1993 19.96
1994 21.26
1995 21.24
1996 19.67
1997 25.86
1998 23.97
1999 22.19
2000 10.14
2001 22.57
2002 30.41
2003 30.21
2004 27.30
2005 23.81
2006 26.64
2007 22.14
2008 17.17
2010 17.11
2011 14.93
2012 20.87
2013 27.73
2014 23.86
2015 24.51
2016 18.38
2017 24.70
2018 27.64
2019 19.02
2020 18.63

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports