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Rwanda: Food imports

22.44percent · 2022+43.3% 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 Rwanda from 1996 to 2022.

19962022

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202222.444
202119.808
202016.656
201916.936
201820.621
201722.599
201617.087
201515.423
201417.085
201317.474
201215.659
201115.739
201014.925
200913.174
200811.742
200716.572
200613.094
200513.977
200415.84
200311.693
200216.341
200120.693
199920.652
199825.303
199718.585
199618.881

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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