World Bank · Private Sector

Nepal: Food imports

17.96percent · 2022+6.6% since 2012

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 Nepal from 1974 to 2022.

19742022

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202217.962
202120.951
202022.789
201916.856
201815.2
201717.643
201618.233
201517.914
201417.936
201318.427
201216.847
201114.18
201013.65
200914.687
200317.274
200011.858
199915.745
19988.392
199410.737
19878.474
198613.928
198513.983
198414.627
198316.066
198210.678
19819.546
19804.333
19794.07
19787.872
19773.821
19766.085
19752.934
19749.822

Source

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

The dataset for every country, with quality and provenance →

Cite or download

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

CSV, all countriesJSON, NepalAPI and MCP

Food imports in other countries

Rank Nepal against its region, see where publishers disagree, or ask a question in plain words on the Interva desk.

Nepal: Food imports (1974–2022) · Interva