Fiji - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Fiji was 22.46 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 53 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 25.63 in 1967 and a minimum value of 13.99 in 2006.

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
1967 25.63
1968 22.71
1969 22.91
1970 22.09
1971 22.07
1972 21.95
1973 22.51
1974 21.94
1975 20.44
1976 21.10
1977 22.38
1978 22.89
1979 18.73
1980 16.31
1981 16.32
1982 17.06
1983 18.14
1984 18.12
1985 18.78
1986 17.72
1987 20.32
1989 16.39
1990 14.64
1991 17.01
1992 16.49
1993 18.01
1994 15.69
2000 14.83
2001 20.21
2002 19.98
2003 18.25
2004 17.66
2005 14.71
2006 13.99
2007 15.48
2008 16.22
2009 20.60
2010 18.44
2011 20.89
2012 21.05
2013 15.91
2014 17.68
2015 18.13
2016 18.25
2017 18.30
2018 16.32
2019 15.32
2020 22.46

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