The Gambia - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in The Gambia was 28.81 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 56 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 45.45 in 2010 and a minimum value of 20.68 in 1973.

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
1964 28.41
1970 31.68
1971 25.87
1972 21.10
1973 20.68
1974 28.56
1975 24.21
1976 27.68
1977 26.48
1978 26.87
1979 25.03
1980 25.88
1995 36.37
1996 37.33
1997 37.75
1998 43.63
1999 36.55
2000 34.50
2001 41.00
2002 37.10
2003 37.60
2004 40.84
2005 37.73
2006 31.19
2007 30.87
2008 33.62
2009 39.01
2010 45.45
2011 32.84
2012 33.18
2013 37.28
2014 41.02
2015 37.34
2016 43.03
2017 33.04
2018 32.24
2019 33.16
2020 28.81

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports