Guinea-Bissau - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Guinea-Bissau was 50.69 as of 2005. As the graph below shows, over the past 35 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 62.42 in 2003 and a minimum value of 27.96 in 1976.

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
1970 31.13
1971 37.60
1972 34.15
1975 36.10
1976 27.96
2003 62.42
2004 39.18
2005 50.69

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports