Pacific island small states - Agricultural raw materials imports

Agricultural raw materials imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Agricultural raw materials imports (% of merchandise imports) in Pacific island small states was 0.96 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 48 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1.61 in 1972 and a minimum value of 0.53 in 1986.

Definition: Agricultural raw materials comprise SITC section 2 (crude materials except fuels) excluding divisions 22, 27 (crude fertilizers and minerals excluding coal, petroleum, and precious stones), and 28 (metalliferous ores and scrap).

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
1970 1.45
1971 1.13
1972 1.61
1973 1.28
1974 1.29
1975 1.08
1976 0.74
1977 0.95
1978 0.82
1979 0.54
1980 0.79
1981 0.74
1982 1.07
1983 0.90
1984 0.68
1985 0.63
1986 0.53
1987 0.61
2002 0.56
2003 0.57
2004 0.62
2005 0.69
2006 0.63
2007 0.64
2008 0.64
2009 0.73
2010 0.79
2011 0.72
2012 0.76
2013 0.85
2014 0.90
2015 0.73
2016 1.19
2017 0.92
2018 0.96

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports