Zambia - Food imports
Food imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Zambia was 8.70 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 54 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 13.57 in 1971 and a minimum value of 4.21 in 2013.
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 |
|---|---|
| 1966 | 10.32 |
| 1967 | 8.41 |
| 1970 | 10.60 |
| 1971 | 13.57 |
| 1972 | 10.52 |
| 1973 | 8.55 |
| 1974 | 10.21 |
| 1975 | 7.76 |
| 1976 | 8.16 |
| 1977 | 7.59 |
| 1978 | 8.12 |
| 1979 | 8.57 |
| 1995 | 9.85 |
| 1996 | 10.96 |
| 1997 | 8.51 |
| 1998 | 11.75 |
| 1999 | 10.03 |
| 2000 | 7.72 |
| 2001 | 8.90 |
| 2002 | 10.92 |
| 2003 | 12.81 |
| 2004 | 7.00 |
| 2005 | 6.28 |
| 2006 | 7.74 |
| 2007 | 5.42 |
| 2008 | 5.63 |
| 2009 | 6.46 |
| 2010 | 4.72 |
| 2011 | 5.05 |
| 2012 | 5.61 |
| 2013 | 4.21 |
| 2014 | 4.73 |
| 2015 | 6.05 |
| 2016 | 6.14 |
| 2017 | 6.12 |
| 2018 | 5.29 |
| 2019 | 7.19 |
| 2020 | 8.70 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
