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Qatar: Food imports

11.18percent · 2024+13.0% 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 Qatar from 1972 to 2024.

19772024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202411.183
202311.204
202212.025
202110.795
202011.92
201910.821
201810.624
201711.184
20169.905
20159.754
20149.898
20139.281
20129.845
20108.495
20086.049
20074.792
20065.213
20056.579
20047.468
20039.75
200211.935
200111.302
200011.749
199915.31
199810.321
199610.862
19959.368
199415.1
199314.653
199214.433
199116.974
198518.238
198421.787
198315.095
198210.658
198113.88
198014.957
197911.719
197811.132
19778.156
19769.942
197513.514
197424.405
197318.739
197220.338

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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