Papua New Guinea - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Papua New Guinea was 11.03 as of 2012. As the graph below shows, over the past 41 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 27.16 in 1974 and a minimum value of 11.03 in 2012.

Definition: 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).

Source: World Bank staff estimates through the WITS platform from the Comtrade database maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division.

See also:

Year Value
1971 18.87
1972 20.16
1973 23.21
1974 27.16
1975 21.76
1976 23.02
1981 19.61
1982 19.66
1983 18.38
1984 19.69
1985 18.67
1986 19.46
1987 17.57
1998 18.92
2000 18.30
2001 15.35
2002 16.45
2003 16.49
2004 16.67
2011 11.56
2012 11.03

Limitations and Exceptions: 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.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The classification of commodity groups is based on the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) revision 3.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Merchandise import shares may not sum to 100 percent because of unclassified trade.

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports