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Botswana: Food imports

16.21percent · 2023+98.7% since 2013

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 Botswana from 2000 to 2023.

20002023

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202316.206
202213.295
202111.398
202012.662
201912.667
201812.2
201712.538
201611.046
20158.747
20147.772
20138.155
20128.819
20119.752
201014.585
200913.065
200811.967
200713.125
200613.726
200513.823
200414.365
200313.865
200215.482
200113.917
200014.007

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by United Nations, World Integrated Trade Solution, World Bank. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-08.

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World Bank (2026). Food imports. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-food-imports (accessed 2026-11-14). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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