South Africa - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in South Africa was 8.40 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 46 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 8.40 in 1992 and a minimum value of 2.92 in 1980.

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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1970
1975
1980
1985
1990
1995
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2005
2010
2015
2020
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2.00
4.00
6.00
8.00
10.00
Year Value
1974 5.40
1975 4.93
1976 4.85
1977 6.34
1978 4.75
1979 4.94
1980 2.92
1981 3.53
1982 3.48
1983 6.52
1984 8.04
1985 6.11
1992 8.40
1993 6.17
1994 6.34
1995 6.68
1996 6.40
1997 5.55
1998 5.24
1999 5.42
2000 4.69
2001 4.35
2002 4.97
2003 4.98
2004 4.96
2005 4.45
2006 4.37
2007 5.17
2008 5.26
2009 6.53
2010 6.63
2011 6.85
2012 7.16
2013 6.55
2014 6.29
2015 6.98
2016 8.36
2017 7.88
2018 7.07
2019 7.23
2020 8.40

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports