St. Kitts and Nevis - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in St. Kitts and Nevis was 25.38 as of 2017. As the graph below shows, over the past 36 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 25.58 in 2012 and a minimum value of 15.62 in 2002.

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
1981 22.75
1982 24.63
1983 23.30
1986 22.91
1987 19.18
1993 21.99
1994 21.18
1995 21.07
1996 20.31
1997 19.16
1999 18.52
2000 19.04
2001 17.35
2002 15.62
2003 16.58
2004 19.43
2005 18.50
2006 18.61
2007 18.69
2008 17.77
2009 20.96
2010 19.72
2011 23.70
2012 25.58
2013 21.90
2014 21.00
2015 21.21
2016 24.87
2017 25.38

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