Sri Lanka - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Sri Lanka was 15.69 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 51.82 in 1964 and a minimum value of 11.40 in 2012.

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 38.74
1963 43.25
1964 51.82
1965 41.41
1966 47.86
1967 45.65
1968 46.10
1969 37.81
1970 46.98
1971 46.85
1972 47.68
1974 45.95
1975 50.46
1976 36.28
1977 39.83
1978 29.71
1979 23.31
1980 20.40
1981 19.36
1982 12.82
1983 17.18
1984 15.28
1985 19.96
1986 17.74
1987 15.60
1990 19.05
1991 17.45
1992 16.23
1993 13.85
1994 15.78
1999 15.26
2000 13.15
2001 14.16
2002 14.06
2003 13.45
2004 12.10
2005 12.40
2006 12.30
2007 11.89
2008 13.73
2009 15.74
2010 15.25
2011 12.89
2012 11.40
2013 11.97
2014 13.20
2015 13.12
2016 11.94
2017 12.96
2019 11.64
2020 15.69

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