Togo - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Togo was 17.57 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 30.86 in 1983 and a minimum value of 10.06 in 1978.

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 28.76
1963 25.25
1964 22.24
1965 17.71
1966 23.12
1967 23.24
1968 19.34
1969 22.35
1970 23.11
1971 19.68
1972 19.15
1973 19.97
1974 16.41
1975 14.19
1976 15.71
1977 18.47
1978 10.06
1979 13.59
1980 16.54
1981 25.73
1983 30.86
1986 22.72
1987 21.38
1988 25.98
1991 23.06
1994 24.80
1995 18.39
1996 20.05
1997 17.98
1998 12.81
1999 17.27
2000 18.38
2001 22.78
2002 22.13
2003 17.12
2004 18.14
2005 15.53
2007 14.64
2008 10.15
2009 12.88
2010 13.30
2011 13.30
2012 14.66
2013 12.39
2014 13.91
2015 15.07
2016 14.54
2017 19.40
2018 17.40
2019 17.82
2020 17.57

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