Jamaica - 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.

See also:

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

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