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Benin: Food imports

33.27percent · 2024-27.4% since 2014

Food comprises the commodities in SITC (Rev. 3) sections 0 (food and live animals), 1 (beverages and tobacco), and 4 (animal and vegetable oils and fats) and division 22 (oil seeds, oil nuts, and oil kernels). This indicator is expressed as a percentage of merchandise imports which is comprised of goods whose economic ownership is changed between a non-resident and a resident and that are not included in the following specific categories: goods under merchanting, non-monetary gold, and parts of travel, construction, and government goods and services n.i.e. Annual figures for Benin from 1962 to 2024.

19652024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202433.27
202332.737
202230
202135.119
202032.931
201938.44
201846.919
201752.311
201650.488
201540.202
201445.848
201340.333
201237.89
201133.921
201038.64
200931.094
200836.136
200731.159
200630.678
200529.942
200424.565
200324.214
200223.876
200120.361
200021.867
199922.97
199824.839
198224.919
198026.268
197923.424
197417.849
197321.829
197220.941
197117.158
197017.816
196919.564
196821.803
196721.838
196624.693
196522.795
196424.371
196322.634
196226.366

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by United Nations, World Integrated Trade Solution, World Bank. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Food imports. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-food-imports (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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