Venezuela - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Venezuela was 18.41 as of 2013. As the graph below shows, over the past 51 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 20.08 in 1983 and a minimum value of 7.12 in 2007.

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 16.11
1963 14.90
1964 14.32
1965 12.24
1966 11.85
1967 12.66
1968 11.96
1969 11.30
1970 10.40
1971 9.67
1972 9.45
1973 13.25
1974 11.98
1975 12.23
1976 11.58
1977 11.94
1978 11.77
1979 12.24
1980 14.48
1981 16.86
1982 14.04
1983 20.08
1984 16.45
1985 12.88
1986 9.37
1987 10.77
1990 11.20
1991 10.37
1992 9.95
1993 11.45
1994 13.32
1995 14.29
1996 15.58
1997 10.94
1998 12.18
1999 12.74
2000 11.69
2001 11.50
2002 12.59
2003 17.27
2004 14.82
2005 9.93
2006 7.52
2007 7.12
2008 16.23
2009 16.17
2010 15.47
2011 15.87
2012 15.64
2013 18.41

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