Cabo Verde - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Cabo Verde was 14.43 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 42 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 46.43 in 1980 and a minimum value of 14.43 in 2020.

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.

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Year Value
1978 41.31
1979 45.19
1980 46.43
1997 34.75
1998 34.42
1999 31.82
2000 31.00
2001 33.74
2002 29.82
2003 30.76
2004 30.21
2005 30.51
2006 29.17
2007 25.69
2008 27.66
2009 29.44
2010 27.75
2011 25.40
2012 27.94
2013 32.15
2014 28.44
2015 32.47
2016 30.87
2017 30.10
2018 30.20
2019 30.93
2020 14.43

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