Indonesia - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Indonesia was 12.62 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 53 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 24.99 in 1968 and a minimum value of 5.05 in 1990.

Definition: Food comprises the commodities in SITC sections 0 (food and live animals), 1 (beverages and tobacco), and 4 (animal and vegetable oils and fats) and SITC division 22 (oil seeds, oil nuts, and oil kernels).

Source: World Bank staff estimates through the WITS platform from the Comtrade database maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division.

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Year Value
1967 9.26
1968 24.99
1969 15.56
1970 15.37
1971 9.42
1972 9.94
1973 10.32
1974 14.97
1975 12.50
1976 14.57
1977 16.34
1978 17.64
1979 16.00
1980 12.68
1981 11.05
1982 7.16
1983 7.73
1984 6.50
1985 6.91
1986 7.17
1987 7.00
1989 7.61
1990 5.05
1991 5.48
1992 6.36
1993 6.47
1994 7.76
1995 8.84
1996 10.80
1997 8.83
1998 10.52
1999 15.71
2000 10.01
2001 9.93
2002 11.12
2003 11.50
2004 9.69
2005 8.08
2006 8.86
2007 10.55
2008 7.26
2009 8.92
2010 8.46
2011 9.43
2012 8.25
2013 8.78
2014 9.56
2015 9.97
2016 11.61
2017 11.85
2018 10.21
2019 10.62
2020 12.62

Limitations and Exceptions: Previous editions contained data based on the SITC revision 1. Data for earlier years in previous editions may differ because of the change in methodology. Concordance tables are available to convert data reported in one system to another.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The classification of commodity groups is based on the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) revision 3.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Merchandise import shares may not sum to 100 percent because of unclassified trade.

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports