Tunisia - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Tunisia was 10.51 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 27.86 in 1970 and a minimum value of 7.99 in 1991.

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 25.09
1963 21.26
1964 18.64
1965 16.20
1966 19.75
1967 27.30
1968 23.69
1969 25.43
1970 27.86
1971 22.80
1972 20.71
1973 20.93
1974 20.69
1975 18.72
1976 13.56
1977 13.49
1978 13.47
1979 14.72
1980 13.68
1981 14.27
1982 11.64
1983 15.85
1984 15.75
1985 14.10
1986 14.38
1987 11.93
1990 10.63
1991 7.99
1992 8.31
1993 8.31
1994 9.82
1995 12.54
1996 9.66
1997 10.80
1998 10.30
1999 8.30
2000 8.24
2001 8.33
2002 10.21
2003 8.40
2004 8.62
2005 8.46
2006 8.20
2007 9.81
2008 10.21
2009 8.56
2010 9.35
2011 11.32
2012 9.07
2013 10.63
2014 9.70
2015 11.18
2016 11.14
2017 11.05
2018 10.47
2019 10.51

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports