St. Lucia - Fuel imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Fuel imports (% of merchandise imports) in St. Lucia was 16.71 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 46 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 43.81 in 2013 and a minimum value of 3.97 in 1973.

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
1973 3.97
1974 7.10
1975 7.62
1976 8.20
1977 7.89
1978 6.55
1979 9.97
1980 10.01
1981 9.75
1982 11.70
1983 12.20
1985 10.54
1986 7.70
1987 6.31
1991 7.03
1992 5.25
1993 7.64
1994 6.54
1995 7.62
1996 8.27
1997 8.51
1998 7.89
1999 6.80
2000 9.35
2001 10.71
2002 9.85
2003 11.22
2004 13.01
2005 13.80
2006 12.88
2007 21.26
2008 25.91
2009 13.57
2010 13.07
2011 15.42
2012 17.42
2013 43.81
2014 24.62
2015 16.16
2016 19.19
2017 15.58
2018 20.91
2019 16.71

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