Türkiye's food imports (% of merchandise imports) was 7.01% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 1.21 percentage points from 5.8% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 7.01% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 6.72% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 5.8% | 2015 |
| Highest | 13.82% | 1963 |
| Lowest | 0.87% | 1968 |
| Average since 2016 | 6.41% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 12.77% | 1962 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Türkiye's food imports (% of merchandise imports) rose 0.8 percentage points on 2024 (from 6.21% to 7.01%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.04 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.64 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.2 standard deviations above that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 7.51 percentage points in 1974 and the biggest yearly fall was 7.04 percentage points in 1964. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 the straight-line trend is upward, about 0.07 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 33% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2025, Türkiye had the 91st highest value of the 103 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Türkiye | 7.01% | 2025 |
| World | 8.88% | 2025 |
| Europe & Central Asia | 10.73% | 2025 |
| Upper middle income | 8.19% | 2025 |
Closest to Türkiye in the 2025 ranking
- Slovak Republic — 88th of 103: 7.24%
- South Africa — 89th of 103: 7.16%
- Czechia — 90th of 103: 7.05%
- United States — 92nd of 103: 6.7%
- Australia — 93rd of 103: 6.51%
- Korea, Rep. — 94th of 103: 6.47%
What this measures
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.
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 63 values
| Year | Food imports (% of merchandise imports) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 7.01 |
| 2024 | 6.21 |
| 2023 | 6.55 |
| 2022 | 6.31 |
| 2021 | 6.43 |
| 2020 | 6.72 |
| 2019 | 6.83 |
| 2018 | 6.09 |
| 2017 | 5.89 |
| 2016 | 6.02 |
| 2015 |
Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in nearby economies
More private sector & trade data for Türkiye
- Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 39.99% (2025)
- Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$365.37 billion (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$273.36 billion (2025)
- Merchandise imports from economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise imports) — 7.77% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) — 69.52% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports) — 26.14% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in Middle East & North Africa (% of total merchandise imports) — 3.44% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in South Asia (% of total merchandise imports)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Türkiye's food imports (% of merchandise imports)?
- 7.01% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1962?
- It is down 5.76 percentage points from 12.77% in 1962. The highest value was 13.82% in 1963 and the lowest 0.87% in 1968.
- How does Türkiye rank?
- 91st highest of 103 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in food imports (% of merchandise imports) unusual for Türkiye?
- In 2025, Türkiye's food imports (% of merchandise imports) rose 0.8 percentage points on 2024 (from 6.21% to 7.01%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.04 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.64 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.2 standard deviations above that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator TM.VAL.FOOD.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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