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The Official Journal of the Pan-Pacific Association of Input-Output Studies (PAPAIOS)

Table 4 Food imports, selected years

From: Agricultural Modernization, Structural Change and Pro-poor Growth: Policy Options for the Democratic Republic of Congo

 

1961

1970

1980

1990

2000

2010

Total food imports (thousand constant $)

22,792

61,887

156,900

241,393

214,424

977,293

Import share in total agricultural imports (percent)

      

 Wheat

0.03

0.00

39.60

29.36

21.34

28.66

 Flour of maize

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

7.47

13.18

 Flour of wheat

32.47

27.82

1.76

11.37

18.03

9.68

 Sugar raw centrifugal

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

7.79

8.95

 Palm oil

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.94

5.61

 Chicken meat

0.65

0.41

0.95

4.30

2.52

4.19

 Rice—total (rice milled equivalent)

14.81

8.52

6.19

16.60

10.95

3.41

 Malt

15.43

12.43

4.76

4.88

3.14

3.31

 Other

36.60

50.82

46.74

33.49

27.83

23.01

Total

100.00

100.00

100.00

100.00

100.00

100.00

  1. Source: Author’s calculations, based on FAOSTAT