Food share of merchandise imports
Compare food share of merchandise imports across 24 ISO-mapped countries or territories using one fixed 2025 official-source slice.
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Key Insights
- •24 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite 2025 observation.
- •Belize has the highest published value (19.3491683166049 % of merchandise imports).
- •Brazil has the lowest published value (5.52507357671033 % of merchandise imports).
Country Rankings
Top 10 Countries
Bottom 10 Countries
Data Analysis
Value Distribution
How countries are distributed across the value range
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 11.1% of merchandise imports)
About This Statistic
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.
MapTheory retains one fixed year, unit and explicit source slice. Only finite ISO-mapped observations are included; aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies and conflicting duplicates are excluded. No values are estimated or imputed by MapTheory.
Methodology
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.
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Belize | 19.3% of merchandise imports |
| 2 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 18.2% of merchandise imports |
| 3 | Latvia | 17.9% of merchandise imports |
| 4 | Portugal | 15.9% of merchandise imports |
| 5 | Denmark | 13.6% of merchandise imports |
| 6 | Lithuania | 13.1% of merchandise imports |
| 7 | New Zealand | 12.8% of merchandise imports |
| 8 | Kyrgyzstan | 12.6% of merchandise imports |
| 9 | Azerbaijan | 12.4% of merchandise imports |
| 10 | Chile | 11.6% of merchandise imports |
| 11 | Bhutan | 11.4% of merchandise imports |
| 12 | Norway | 11.1% of merchandise imports |
| 13 | Iceland | 11.1% of merchandise imports |
| 14 | Indonesia | 10.2% of merchandise imports |
| 15 | United Kingdom | 9.8% of merchandise imports |
| 16 | Japan | 9.8% of merchandise imports |
| 17 | Malaysia | 8.3% of merchandise imports |
| 18 | Paraguay | 7.8% of merchandise imports |
| 19 | South Africa | 7.2% of merchandise imports |
| 20 | Hungary | 7.0% of merchandise imports |
| 21 | Australia | 6.5% of merchandise imports |
| 22 | Guyana | 6.5% of merchandise imports |
| 23 | Mexico | 6.3% of merchandise imports |
| 24 | Brazil | 5.5% of merchandise imports |
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Data Source
This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2025).
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