United States - Food imports
Food imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in United States was 6.61 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 23.55 in 1962 and a minimum value of 3.93 in 2000.
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 |
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1962 | 23.55 |
1963 | 23.42 |
1964 | 22.28 |
1965 | 19.61 |
1966 | 18.74 |
1967 | 18.20 |
1968 | 16.91 |
1969 | 15.27 |
1970 | 16.12 |
1971 | 14.54 |
1972 | 13.68 |
1973 | 13.76 |
1974 | 11.18 |
1975 | 10.84 |
1976 | 10.18 |
1977 | 9.93 |
1978 | 9.62 |
1979 | 9.18 |
1980 | 8.22 |
1981 | 7.71 |
1982 | 7.87 |
1983 | 7.85 |
1984 | 7.17 |
1985 | 7.03 |
1986 | 7.15 |
1987 | 6.48 |
1989 | 5.71 |
1990 | 5.81 |
1991 | 5.91 |
1992 | 5.72 |
1993 | 5.33 |
1994 | 5.04 |
1995 | 4.78 |
1996 | 4.92 |
1997 | 4.98 |
1998 | 4.88 |
1999 | 4.59 |
2000 | 3.93 |
2001 | 4.25 |
2002 | 4.60 |
2003 | 4.67 |
2004 | 4.37 |
2005 | 4.20 |
2006 | 4.18 |
2007 | 4.35 |
2008 | 4.40 |
2009 | 5.43 |
2010 | 4.95 |
2011 | 5.04 |
2012 | 4.90 |
2013 | 5.15 |
2014 | 5.52 |
2015 | 5.83 |
2016 | 6.12 |
2017 | 6.09 |
2018 | 5.96 |
2019 | 6.18 |
2020 | 6.77 |
2021 | 6.61 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports