Spain - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Spain was 11.14 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 22.36 in 1963 and a minimum value of 8.41 in 2006.

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 19.81
1963 22.36
1964 18.28
1965 20.28
1966 19.74
1967 19.62
1968 17.90
1969 16.94
1970 15.65
1971 17.56
1972 16.31
1973 16.90
1974 15.32
1975 16.55
1976 13.18
1977 15.54
1978 16.35
1979 14.70
1980 12.51
1981 11.90
1982 12.19
1983 12.73
1984 12.01
1985 10.64
1986 12.92
1987 11.37
1988 11.32
1989 10.63
1990 10.78
1991 11.78
1992 12.12
1993 13.57
1994 13.62
1995 13.61
1996 12.31
1997 11.76
1998 11.42
1999 10.44
2000 9.14
2001 9.98
2002 10.29
2003 9.98
2004 9.54
2005 9.23
2006 8.41
2007 8.75
2008 9.29
2009 11.30
2010 10.49
2011 10.54
2012 11.09
2013 11.16
2014 10.91
2015 11.48
2016 11.93
2017 11.72
2018 10.77
2019 10.79
2020 11.92
2021 11.14

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