North America - Fuel imports

Fuel imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Fuel imports (% of merchandise imports) in North America was 7.41 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 29.63 in 1980 and a minimum value of 5.33 in 2020.

Definition: Fuels comprise the commodities in SITC section 3 (mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials).

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 10.71
1963 10.62
1964 10.20
1965 9.91
1966 8.48
1967 8.09
1968 7.44
1969 7.33
1970 7.37
1971 7.79
1972 8.18
1973 10.81
1974 22.83
1975 24.86
1976 25.18
1977 26.76
1978 22.10
1979 26.15
1980 29.63
1981 28.13
1982 24.04
1983 19.97
1984 16.74
1985 14.04
1986 9.53
1987 10.10
1989 10.33
1990 12.19
1991 10.42
1992 9.62
1993 8.91
1994 7.90
1995 7.46
1996 8.62
1997 8.44
1998 6.07
1999 6.83
2000 10.20
2001 9.91
2002 9.25
2003 11.42
2004 13.13
2005 16.10
2006 16.60
2007 17.03
2008 21.50
2009 16.17
2010 17.19
2011 19.10
2012 17.47
2013 15.85
2014 14.15
2015 8.41
2016 7.11
2017 8.24
2018 9.05
2019 8.04
2020 5.33
2021 7.41

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports