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Lesotho: Food imports

22.95percent · 2024+11.2% 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 Lesotho from 2000 to 2024.

20002024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202422.952
202322.509
202224.024
202120.67
202022.051
201919.819
201819.06
201719.455
201621.227
201519.927
201420.646
201317.989
201220.345
201123.341
201019.655
200928.946
200825.483
200726.055
200415.616
200319.34
200223.056
200127.005
200017.617

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 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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