Afghanistan: Agricultural raw materials imports (% of merchandise imports)

Key figures

Since 1962 it is up 0.8 percentage points from 0.97% in 1962. The World Bank has no value for 38 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

What the numbers say

In 2019, Afghanistan's agricultural raw materials imports (% of merchandise imports) fell 0.05 percentage points on 2018 (from 1.82% to 1.77%).

Across the 16 yearly changes before that (1963 to 2018), the average change was +0.02 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.7 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 1.71 percentage points in 1973 and the biggest yearly fall was 1.57 percentage points in 1975. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

How it compares

See how every economy compares in the full ranking.

Closest to Afghanistan in the 2019 ranking

• Libya — 2nd of 2: 0.44%

What this measures

Agricultural raw materials comprise section 2 of SITC Rev. 3 (crude materials, inedible, except fuels) excluding divisions 22 (oil-seeds and oleaginous fruits), 27 (crude fertilizers and minerals excluding coal, petroleum, and precious stones), and 28 (metalliferous ores and scrap). 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.

Limitations: 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.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.

All 20 values

Agricultural raw materials imports (% of merchandise imports) in nearby economies

• Algeria — 1.57% (2024)
• Bahrain — 0.62% (2024)
• Djibouti — 1.14% (2023)
• Egypt, Arab Rep. — 2% (2025)
• Iran, Islamic Rep. — 2.88% (2023)
• Iraq — 0.32% (2024)
• Israel — 0.74% (2025)
• Jordan — 1.08% (2024)
• Kuwait — 0.44% (2025)

More private sector & trade data for Afghanistan

• Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$3.61 billion (2025)
• Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$926 million (2025)
• Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports) — 12.88% (2023)
• Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies in South Asia (% of total merchandise exports) — 69.93% (2023)
• Merchandise exports by the reporting economy, residual (% of total merchandise exports) — 0% (2023)
• Merchandise exports by the reporting economy (current US$) — US$438.77 million (2023)
• Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies within region (% of total merchandise exports) — 69.93% (2023)

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Questions people ask

What is Afghanistan's agricultural raw materials imports (% of merchandise imports)?

1.77% in 2019, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1962?

It is up 0.8 percentage points from 0.97% in 1962. The highest value was 3.47% in 1973 and the lowest 0.67% in 1966.

Is the latest change in agricultural raw materials imports (% of merchandise imports) unusual for Afghanistan?

In 2019, Afghanistan's agricultural raw materials imports (% of merchandise imports) fell 0.05 percentage points on 2018 (from 1.82% to 1.77%). Across the 16 yearly changes before that (1963 to 2018), the average change was +0.02 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.7 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator TM.VAL.AGRI.ZS.UN, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Comtrade database, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Statistics Division; World Integrated Trade Solution system (WITS); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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