Food comprises the commodities in SITC sections 0 (food and live animals), 1 (beverages and tobacco), and 4 (animal and vegetable oils and fats) and SITC division 22 (oil seeds, oil nuts, and oil kernels).
| 1970 | 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritius | 36.4 | 12.4 | 14.2 | 16.7 | 21.0 | 21.2 | 21.5 | 22.0 | 21.2 | 22.0 | 24.2 | 24.0 | 21.0 | 20.8 | 24.7 | 21.6 | 21.4 | 22.5 | 21.2 |
| Egypt, Arab Rep. | 23.2 | 25.2 | 20.1 | 19.1 | 23.8 | 22.4 | 17.5 | 20.9 | 19.5 | 20.4 | 20.3 | 18.3 | 20.9 | 23.1 | 21.3 | 22.1 | 21.6 | 20.4 | |
| Zimbabwe | 3.7 | 7.7 | 12.8 | 17.9 | 14.7 | 18.3 | 14.6 | 15.4 | 17.0 | 19.9 | 14.9 | 11.9 | 8.1 | 18.3 | 14.4 | 13.3 | 13.8 | 19.0 | |
| Djibouti | 41.1 | 36.9 | 38.6 | ||||||||||||||||
| Libya | 22.6 | 12.2 | 32.9 | 31.5 | 26.3 | 21.6 | |||||||||||||
| Tunisia | 27.9 | 10.6 | 8.2 | 8.5 | 9.4 | 11.3 | 9.1 | 10.6 | 9.7 | 11.2 | 11.1 | 11.1 | 10.5 | 10.5 | 13.2 | 12.1 | 12.8 | 13.4 | |
| Burundi | 22.9 | 6.5 | 13.7 | 24.7 | 30.1 | 14.0 | 13.1 | 12.6 | 16.6 | 19.0 | 16.7 | 15.6 | 14.7 | 14.3 | 12.9 | ||||
| Comoros | 43.4 | 34.2 | 38.0 | 40.8 | 42.0 | 36.1 | 41.5 | 45.3 | 49.2 | 34.9 | 42.1 | 42.7 | 37.6 | 25.3 | |||||
| Congo, Dem. Rep. | 15.7 | 14.1 | 15.2 | 13.4 | 8.6 | 7.7 | 9.3 | 10.9 | 7.9 | 4.8 | |||||||||
| Eritrea | 37.4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ethiopia | 7.0 | 10.6 | 10.9 | 14.4 | 10.9 | 12.5 | 9.0 | 9.8 | 13.1 | 12.4 | 15.1 | 12.2 | 18.4 | 28.2 | 23.8 | 13.8 | |||
| Kenya | 9.3 | 13.9 | 9.5 | 12.1 | 10.7 | 11.3 | 12.4 | 18.9 | 14.0 | 14.6 | 16.8 | 16.0 | 16.4 | 18.8 | |||||
| Madagascar | 12.4 | 11.2 | 13.2 | 15.4 | 13.5 | 17.9 | 16.0 | 17.2 | 16.0 | 14.1 | 15.5 | 19.9 | 17.2 | 16.5 | 20.3 | 21.5 | 19.2 | 18.1 | |
| Malawi | 18.1 | 8.7 | 9.8 | 18.2 | 14.4 | 13.0 | 6.4 | 11.4 | 11.3 | 13.3 | 17.6 | 12.5 | 10.3 | 11.0 | 14.7 | 10.4 | 9.6 | 8.9 | |
| Rwanda | 14.0 | 14.9 | 15.7 | 15.7 | 17.5 | 17.1 | 15.4 | 17.1 | 22.6 | 20.6 | 16.9 | 16.7 | 19.8 | 22.4 | |||||
| Seychelles | 10.1 | 23.8 | 17.1 | 15.5 | 25.6 | 27.5 | 26.0 | 24.5 | 18.1 | 9.6 | 20.4 | 19.0 | 13.2 | 19.5 | 15.3 | 25.2 | |||
| Somalia | 33.7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sudan | 21.3 | 22.7 | 12.5 | 25.9 | 18.0 | 22.2 | 19.5 | 25.4 | 20.5 | 36.3 | 21.2 | 29.9 | |||||||
| Eswatini | 18.7 | 16.8 | 19.7 | 17.1 | 19.1 | 15.4 | 17.2 | 17.7 | 18.7 | 18.5 | 18.8 | 18.3 | 20.4 | 18.6 | 19.2 | 19.6 | |||
| Uganda | 14.1 | 15.9 | 12.4 | 13.5 | 10.8 | 11.5 | 13.6 | 12.1 | 13.3 | 14.9 | 11.8 | 10.7 | 11.5 | 14.2 | 13.5 | 10.7 | |||
| Zambia | 10.6 | 7.7 | 6.3 | 4.7 | 5.1 | 5.6 | 4.2 | 4.7 | 6.0 | 6.1 | 6.1 | 5.3 | 7.3 | 8.7 | 9.0 | 7.8 | 6.9 |