Uruguay - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Uruguay was 16.18 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 50 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 16.18 in 2020 and a minimum value of 6.02 in 1982.

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
1970 12.68
1971 12.37
1972 13.54
1974 9.26
1975 8.08
1976 6.44
1977 6.25
1978 6.64
1979 9.99
1980 7.87
1981 6.75
1982 6.02
1983 8.39
1984 9.16
1985 7.00
1986 9.03
1987 7.89
1993 8.18
1994 10.89
1995 10.41
1996 10.93
1997 10.47
1998 10.68
1999 10.94
2000 11.49
2001 11.44
2002 14.48
2003 12.63
2004 8.62
2005 8.09
2006 8.08
2007 8.66
2008 7.94
2009 10.10
2010 9.52
2011 10.88
2012 9.37
2013 11.28
2014 11.08
2015 12.84
2016 13.30
2017 13.32
2018 14.58
2019 14.58
2020 16.18

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