Switzerland - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Switzerland was 4.65 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 17.12 in 1965 and a minimum value of 3.81 in 2013.

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
1962 16.55
1963 16.46
1964 16.89
1965 17.12
1966 16.53
1967 15.98
1968 14.10
1969 13.64
1970 13.17
1971 13.08
1972 12.65
1973 13.14
1974 12.14
1975 13.03
1976 12.00
1977 11.45
1978 10.30
1979 8.78
1980 8.04
1981 8.95
1982 9.03
1983 8.44
1984 8.14
1985 8.01
1986 7.71
1987 7.35
1988 6.85
1989 6.35
1990 6.27
1991 6.61
1992 6.74
1993 6.83
1994 6.92
1995 6.44
1996 6.59
1997 6.26
1998 6.16
1999 6.14
2000 5.52
2001 5.47
2002 5.73
2003 6.01
2004 5.66
2005 5.42
2006 5.21
2007 5.38
2008 5.69
2009 6.29
2010 5.80
2011 5.72
2012 3.86
2013 3.81
2014 4.57
2015 4.58
2016 4.28
2017 4.55
2018 4.54
2019 4.49
2020 4.61
2021 4.65

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports