St. Vincent and the Grenadines - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in St. Vincent and the Grenadines was 28.40 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 43 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 37.30 in 1976 and a minimum value of 20.22 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
1976 37.30
1980 35.20
1993 25.44
1994 22.66
1995 22.51
1997 25.39
1998 25.35
1999 22.99
2000 26.66
2001 23.15
2002 24.87
2003 21.60
2004 22.01
2005 21.52
2006 20.22
2007 21.76
2008 23.20
2009 23.52
2010 22.16
2011 24.18
2012 24.65
2013 25.19
2014 26.12
2015 27.98
2016 27.22
2017 28.07
2018 26.29
2019 28.40

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