Food imports
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.
- Publisher
- World Bank
- Unit
- —
- Cadence
- Annual
- Series
- 198
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-06
Provenance
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United Nations
Comtrade database, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Statistics Division
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World Integrated Trade Solution
World Integrated Trade Solution system (WITS)
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World Bank
Staff estimates, World Bank (WB)
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Read from
World Bank
World Development Indicators
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Latest observations
| Country | Period | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 2025 | 6.51 | percent |
| Azerbaijan | 2025 | 12.44 | percent |
| Belize | 2025 | 19.35 | percent |
| Bhutan | 2025 | 11.45 | percent |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2025 | 18.19 | percent |
| Brazil | 2025 | 5.53 | percent |
| Chile | 2025 | 11.58 | percent |
| Denmark | 2025 | 13.56 | percent |
| Guyana | 2025 | 6.48 | percent |
| Hungary | 2025 | 7.05 | percent |
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