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Zimbabwe: Food imports

18.96percent · 2024+23.4% 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 Zimbabwe from 1984 to 2024.

19842024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202418.955
202313.819
202213.317
202114.37
202018.254
20198.06
201811.888
201714.894
201619.944
201517.011
201415.361
201314.58
201218.304
201114.692
201017.912
200913.21
200819.463
200711.378
200620.891
200512.795
200423.676
200321.01
200213.201
20015.142
20007.69
19998.793
19977.151
199610.342
19955.976
19944.827
199311.148
199217.771
19912.234
19903.68
19863.275
19854.959
19848.119

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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