Small states - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Small states was 14.62 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 45 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 15.56 in 1975 and a minimum value of 10.54 in 2006.

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
1975 15.56
1995 13.46
1996 15.07
1998 14.43
1999 15.29
2000 13.04
2001 13.57
2002 13.70
2003 12.92
2004 12.37
2005 11.33
2006 10.54
2007 10.80
2008 11.44
2009 15.26
2010 13.23
2011 13.59
2012 13.00
2013 12.90
2014 12.85
2015 13.48
2016 14.06
2017 14.05
2018 13.06
2019 13.21
2020 14.62

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports