Jamaica - Food imports
Food imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Jamaica was 21.75 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 23.85 in 1963 and a minimum value of 12.23 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.
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| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 1962 | 23.04 |
| 1963 | 23.85 |
| 1972 | 21.19 |
| 1973 | 22.56 |
| 1974 | 23.14 |
| 1975 | 20.17 |
| 1976 | 23.20 |
| 1977 | 19.92 |
| 1978 | 22.56 |
| 1979 | 16.79 |
| 1980 | 20.32 |
| 1981 | 18.65 |
| 1982 | 19.24 |
| 1983 | 17.07 |
| 1984 | 19.97 |
| 1985 | 17.83 |
| 1986 | 20.40 |
| 1987 | 18.06 |
| 1991 | 14.37 |
| 1992 | 14.80 |
| 1993 | 14.03 |
| 1994 | 14.00 |
| 1995 | 14.34 |
| 1996 | 14.62 |
| 1997 | 16.74 |
| 1998 | 18.24 |
| 1999 | 17.49 |
| 2000 | 15.52 |
| 2001 | 15.40 |
| 2002 | 15.22 |
| 2003 | 15.12 |
| 2004 | 15.14 |
| 2005 | 14.66 |
| 2006 | 14.39 |
| 2007 | 12.70 |
| 2008 | 12.23 |
| 2009 | 18.12 |
| 2010 | 17.67 |
| 2011 | 16.73 |
| 2012 | 16.59 |
| 2013 | 17.40 |
| 2014 | 17.59 |
| 2015 | 18.00 |
| 2016 | 18.62 |
| 2017 | 16.73 |
| 2018 | 16.44 |
| 2019 | 17.97 |
| 2020 | 21.75 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
