French Polynesia - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in French Polynesia was 24.65 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 26.67 in 1962 and a minimum value of 17.42 in 2003.

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
1962 26.67
1973 21.34
1974 19.94
1975 21.54
1976 20.79
1977 19.40
1978 18.65
1979 20.87
1980 18.62
1981 19.08
1982 19.34
1983 18.87
1996 21.62
1997 21.79
1998 19.63
1999 20.77
2000 20.04
2001 20.27
2002 17.80
2003 17.42
2004 20.73
2005 18.95
2006 19.71
2007 20.85
2008 20.12
2009 23.54
2010 23.54
2011 24.93
2012 25.28
2013 24.07
2014 25.29
2015 25.15
2016 25.44
2017 24.47
2018 19.02
2019 20.15
2020 24.65

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports