Guinea - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Guinea was 26.58 as of 2016. As the graph below shows, over the past 21 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 31.05 in 1995 and a minimum value of 13.23 in 2008.

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
1995 31.05
1996 22.44
1997 23.69
1998 25.44
1999 30.57
2000 24.17
2001 23.49
2002 23.08
2004 19.33
2005 15.84
2006 25.62
2007 16.91
2008 13.23
2013 21.65
2014 25.35
2015 23.45
2016 26.58

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