Net food imports by crop - Maize, annual growth rate by country
The year-on-year percentage change in Net food imports by crop - Maize. Computed from consecutive annual observations; years either side of a gap are skipped rather than bridged.
Countries reporting
173
Highest
715.93 % change on previous year
Djibouti
Lowest
-777.51 % change on previous year
Belize
Median
9.01 % change on previous year
Years covered
58
1962–2019
Data points
6,622
What the numbers show
Net food imports by crop - Maize, annual growth rate is currently reported for 173 countries. The highest value is 715.93 % change on previous year in Djibouti; the lowest is -777.51 % change on previous year in Belize.
The median across all reporting countries is 9.01 % change on previous year, and the mean is 22.49 % change on previous year.
Over the past decade 103 countries rose and 61 fell. The largest increase was in Kyrgyzstan (up 56,184.9%), and the largest decrease in Niger (down 3,705.2%).
Net food imports by crop - Maize, annual growth rate: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Djibouti | 715.93 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 581.2% | volatile |
| 2 | Kyrgyzstan | 568.53 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 56,184.9% | volatile |
| 3 | Azerbaijan | 516.42 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 27,069.9% | volatile |
| 4 | Brunei | 408.71 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 90.5% | volatile |
| 5 | Sudan | 370.48 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 122.4% | volatile |
| 6 | Gambia | 333.33 % change on previous year | 2018 | up 43.9% | volatile |
| 7 | Croatia | 327.69 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 431.1% | volatile |
| 8 | Angola | 262.03 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 1,588.6% | volatile |
| 9 | Lithuania | 250.6 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 24,746.6% | volatile |
| 10 | Luxembourg | 243.62 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 1,476.5% | volatile |
| 11 | Seychelles | 215.29 % change on previous year | 2018 | up 647.3% | volatile |
| 12 | Dominican Republic | 182.85 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 3,046.9% | volatile |
| 13 | Liberia | 176.94 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 529.7% | volatile |
| 14 | Iraq | 166.92 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 31.1% | volatile |
| 15 | Malawi | 166.23 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 78.5% | volatile |
| 16 | Canada | 166.02 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 2,859.2% | volatile |
| 17 | Palestine | 164.53 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 644.7% | volatile |
| 18 | Haiti | 157.03 % change on previous year | 2019 | — | volatile |
| 19 | Benin | 152.72 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 684.8% | volatile |
| 20 | Thailand | 148.27 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 592.2% | volatile |
| 21 | Tanzania | 143.7 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 350.3% | volatile |
| 22 | Cambodia | 122.95 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 652.7% | volatile |
| 23 | Czechia | 116.77 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 234.8% | volatile |
| 24 | Poland | 115.47 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 287.8% | volatile |
| 25 | Papua New Guinea | 114.39 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 557.6% | volatile |
| 26 | New Zealand | 112.25 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 9.0% | volatile |
| 27 | Myanmar | 110.13 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 221.9% | volatile |
| 28 | Ethiopia | 109.1 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 112.3% | volatile |
| 29 | Turkey | 104.37 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 224.2% | volatile |
| 30 | East Timor | 100 % change on previous year | 1971 | down 62.5% | volatile |
| 31 | Finland | 99.09 % change on previous year | 2018 | up 51.9% | volatile |
| 32 | Burkina Faso | 93.82 % change on previous year | 2018 | up 167.3% | volatile |
| 33 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 92.49 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 84.3% | volatile |
| 34 | Tajikistan | 84.86 % change on previous year | 2019 | — | volatile |
| 35 | Slovenia | 78.81 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 604.0% | volatile |
| 36 | Germany | 78.77 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 67.5% | volatile |
| 37 | Syria | 74.76 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 17.8% | volatile |
| 38 | Qatar | 71.1 % change on previous year | 2018 | up 755.9% | volatile |
| 39 | Kuwait | 68.68 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 1,121.6% | volatile |
| 40 | Mozambique | 64.79 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 1,005.5% | volatile |
| 41 | Belarus | 63.76 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 322.7% | volatile |
| 42 | Sweden | 63.24 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 306.5% | volatile |
| 43 | Denmark | 61.76 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 439.6% | volatile |
| 44 | Vanuatu | 60 % change on previous year | 2013 | up 160.0% | volatile |
| 45 | Brazil | 57.96 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 8.1% | volatile |
| 46 | Oman | 54.99 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 7.3% | volatile |
| 47 | Australia | 53.15 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 679.2% | volatile |
| 48 | Jordan | 47.69 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 238.8% | volatile |
| 49 | Romania | 45.01 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 85.8% | volatile |
| 50 | Moldova | 43.17 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 418.7% | volatile |
| 51 | Comoros | 40.74 % change on previous year | 2018 | up 177.2% | volatile |
| 52 | Uganda | 40.14 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 155.6% | volatile |
| 53 | Indonesia | 39.51 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 116.7% | volatile |
| 54 | Morocco | 37.89 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 7,820.9% | volatile |
| 55 | Ukraine | 35.78 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 765.7% | volatile |
| 56 | Egypt | 32.69 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 8.9% | volatile |
| 57 | Hungary | 31.41 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 44.8% | volatile |
| 58 | Serbia | 28.99 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 103.7% | volatile |
| 59 | Cyprus | 27.69 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 919.7% | volatile |
| 60 | Russia | 27.61 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 113.5% | volatile |
| 61 | Eswatini | 27.25 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 172.5% | volatile |
| 62 | United States | 25.92 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 93.5% | volatile |
| 63 | Chile | 25.63 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 152.7% | volatile |
| 64 | Nicaragua | 25.05 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 266.6% | volatile |
| 65 | China | 24.52 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 134.3% | volatile |
| 66 | Austria | 22.37 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 78.9% | volatile |
| 67 | El Salvador | 21.78 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 222.8% | volatile |
| 68 | Botswana | 20.94 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 84.4% | volatile |
| 69 | Tunisia | 18.72 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 265.6% | volatile |
| 70 | Grenada | 17.2 % change on previous year | 2018 | — | volatile |
| 71 | Vietnam | 16.99 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 86.3% | volatile |
| 72 | Guatemala | 16.81 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 75.5% | volatile |
| 73 | Taiwan | 15.01 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 52.7% | volatile |
| 74 | Georgia | 14.42 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 63.7% | volatile |
| 75 | Barbados | 14.29 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 222.1% | volatile |
| 76 | Albania | 13.84 % change on previous year | 2016 | down 12.2% | volatile |
| 77 | Eritrea | 13.64 % change on previous year | 2014 | — | volatile |
| 78 | Peru | 12.75 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 66.6% | volatile |
| 79 | South Korea | 11.84 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 163.3% | volatile |
| 80 | Cameroon | 11.8 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 98.2% | volatile |
| 81 | Lebanon | 11.71 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 42.7% | volatile |
| 82 | Democratic Republic of Congo | 11.51 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 101.3% | volatile |
| 83 | Montenegro | 11.38 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 142.8% | volatile |
| 84 | Italy | 11.09 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 3,526.2% | volatile |
| 85 | Colombia | 10.79 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 553.2% | volatile |
| 86 | Honduras | 9.05 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 87.8% | volatile |
| 87 | Laos | 9.01 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 110.5% | volatile |
| 88 | Saudi Arabia | 8.34 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 204.9% | volatile |
| 89 | Netherlands | 8.19 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 182.4% | volatile |
| 90 | Kazakhstan | 6.76 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 86.2% | volatile |
| 91 | Costa Rica | 6.72 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 204.0% | volatile |
| 92 | Spain | 6.58 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 130.4% | volatile |
| 93 | Greece | 6.06 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 109.6% | volatile |
| 94 | Switzerland | 5.85 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 113.5% | volatile |
| 95 | Algeria | 5.64 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 160.6% | volatile |
| 96 | Mauritius | 5.41 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 158.1% | volatile |
| 97 | New Caledonia | 4.69 % change on previous year | 2018 | down 99.1% | volatile |
| 98 | Togo | 4.14 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 107.9% | volatile |
| 99 | Bahamas | 3.97 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 106.7% | volatile |
| 100 | Argentina | 2.66 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 147.2% | volatile |
| 101 | Jamaica | 1.93 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 112.7% | volatile |
| 102 | Namibia | 1.87 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 104.9% | volatile |
| 103 | Nigeria | 1.72 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 98.4% | volatile |
| 104 | Belgium | 1.22 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 103.0% | volatile |
| 105 | Japan | 1.07 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 206.3% | volatile |
| 106 | Panama | 0.8755 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 121.1% | volatile |
| 107 | North Korea | 0.1749 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 100.5% | volatile |
| 108 | Iceland | -0.009 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 109 | Israel | -1.11 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 107.9% | volatile |
| 110 | Venezuela | -1.8 % change on previous year | 2015 | up 97.5% | volatile |
| 111 | Malaysia | -2.09 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 108.3% | volatile |
| 112 | Macao | -3.23 % change on previous year | 2018 | down 102.2% | volatile |
| 113 | Armenia | -3.81 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 86.6% | volatile |
| 114 | Malta | -4.07 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 90.2% | volatile |
| 115 | Bulgaria | -5.34 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 53.6% | volatile |
| 116 | Senegal | -5.6 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 145.0% | volatile |
| 117 | Pakistan | -5.79 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 90.7% | volatile |
| 118 | Ireland | -6.33 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 62.9% | volatile |
| 119 | Mexico | -9.49 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 54.0% | volatile |
| 120 | United Arab Emirates | -11.48 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 66.5% | volatile |
| 121 | Lesotho | -11.85 % change on previous year | 2019 | — | volatile |
| 122 | Trinidad and Tobago | -12.37 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 74.6% | volatile |
| 123 | Sri Lanka | -13.17 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 80.1% | volatile |
| 124 | North Macedonia | -14.17 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 36.7% | volatile |
| 125 | Hong Kong | -14.23 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 217.6% | volatile |
| 126 | France | -15.23 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 392.2% | volatile |
| 127 | Iran | -17.75 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 171.4% | volatile |
| 128 | Guyana | -18.02 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 121.1% | volatile |
| 129 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | -20.3 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 77.5% | volatile |
| 130 | Portugal | -21.58 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 24.6% | volatile |
| 131 | Cape Verde | -22.28 % change on previous year | 2015 | down 170.2% | volatile |
| 132 | United Kingdom | -23.78 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 74.6% | volatile |
| 133 | Nepal | -24.44 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 1,853.6% | volatile |
| 134 | Bangladesh | -24.53 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 105.7% | volatile |
| 135 | Slovakia | -24.94 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 69.0% | volatile |
| 136 | Afghanistan | -24.99 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 75.2% | volatile |
| 137 | Fiji | -25.44 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 459.8% | volatile |
| 138 | French Polynesia | -25.86 % change on previous year | 2013 | down 495.5% | volatile |
| 139 | Gabon | -27.08 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 187.3% | volatile |
| 140 | Dominica | -38 % change on previous year | 2015 | down 698.0% | volatile |
| 141 | Norway | -39.29 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 33.4% | volatile |
| 142 | Bahrain | -40.37 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 164.9% | volatile |
| 143 | Ecuador | -41.22 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 780.6% | volatile |
| 144 | Rwanda | -43.89 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 107.6% | volatile |
| 145 | Singapore | -47.09 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 159.9% | volatile |
| 146 | Suriname | -47.22 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 13.8% | volatile |
| 147 | Burundi | -49.84 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 367.4% | volatile |
| 148 | Philippines | -49.89 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 41.9% | volatile |
| 149 | Guinea | -52.6 % change on previous year | 2019 | up 16.6% | volatile |
| 150 | Somalia | -53.38 % change on previous year | 2018 | — | volatile |
| 151 | Bhutan | -53.41 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 587.1% | volatile |
| 152 | Chad | -59.93 % change on previous year | 2016 | down 4.6% | volatile |
| 153 | Kenya | -60.75 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 111.6% | volatile |
| 154 | Estonia | -65.14 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 412.6% | volatile |
| 155 | India | -68.54 % change on previous year | 2018 | down 228.0% | volatile |
| 156 | Madagascar | -68.65 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 110.1% | volatile |
| 157 | Uruguay | -69.86 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 310.5% | volatile |
| 158 | Libya | -82.78 % change on previous year | 2019 | — | volatile |
| 159 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | -85.68 % change on previous year | 2014 | down 128.5% | volatile |
| 160 | Ghana | -89.27 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 89.2% | volatile |
| 161 | Central African Republic | -91.59 % change on previous year | 2013 | up 8.4% | volatile |
| 162 | Cote d'Ivoire | -97.99 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 124.0% | volatile |
| 163 | Saint Lucia | -98.19 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 84.8% | volatile |
| 164 | South Africa | -98.54 % change on previous year | 2018 | down 7.5% | volatile |
| 165 | Antigua and Barbuda | -100 % change on previous year | 1985 | unchanged | volatile |
| 165 | Guinea-Bissau | -100 % change on previous year | 2014 | down 1,042.9% | volatile |
| 167 | Bolivia | -100.09 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 86.1% | volatile |
| 168 | Paraguay | -102.18 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 30.6% | volatile |
| 169 | Latvia | -196.03 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 189.6% | volatile |
| 170 | Mali | -369.17 % change on previous year | 2018 | down 1,052.0% | volatile |
| 171 | Niger | -687.39 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 3,705.2% | volatile |
| 172 | Sao Tome and Principe | -714.58 % change on previous year | 2014 | — | volatile |
| 173 | Belize | -777.51 % change on previous year | 2019 | down 556.4% | volatile |
How this figure is calculated
The year-on-year percentage change in Net food imports by crop - Maize. Computed from consecutive annual observations; years either side of a gap are skipped rather than bridged.
Computed from
- Net food imports by crop - Maize FAOSTAT. Available at: http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data
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About this data
The year-on-year percentage change in Net food imports by crop - Maize. Computed from consecutive annual observations; years either side of a gap are skipped rather than bridged.