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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egypt | 21.3 | 8.0 | 8.8 | 16.5 | 14.2 | 13.7 | 15.9 | 16.8 | 20.6 | 20.2 | 17.6 | 15.8 | 16.5 | 17.5 | 14.1 | 13.7 | 20.0 | 21.9 | |
| Algeria | 20.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 1.0 | ||||||||
| Bahrain | 5.2 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 1.9 | 1.7 | 2.6 | 3.9 | 2.3 | 2.8 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 4.3 | 5.1 | 3.5 | 3.9 | 8.3 | ||
| Iraq | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||||
| Kuwait | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.5 | |||
| Libya | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |||||||||||||
| Qatar | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |||
| Saudi Arabia | 0.5 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 1.7 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 1.6 | |||
| Syrian Arab Republic | 8.6 | 13.4 | 21.0 | ||||||||||||||||
| Tunisia | 29.9 | 11.0 | 8.7 | 10.4 | 7.7 | 10.1 | 9.3 | 9.7 | 7.9 | 14.2 | 10.3 | 10.6 | 13.1 | 10.7 | 13.6 | 10.8 | 11.8 | 12.9 | |
| United Arab Emirates | 0.6 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 4.2 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 3.0 | 2.9 |