Suriname - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Suriname was 13.13 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 18.89 in 2016 and a minimum value of 9.34 in 1994.

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
1962 18.23
1965 11.75
1973 15.82
1974 11.87
1994 9.34
1995 13.99
1996 14.14
1997 14.85
1998 14.46
1999 15.50
2000 14.05
2001 14.23
2002 14.76
2003 13.30
2004 11.11
2005 9.53
2006 9.71
2007 11.25
2008 11.66
2009 14.26
2010 15.17
2011 14.35
2012 15.25
2013 11.32
2014 13.70
2015 13.42
2016 18.89
2017 15.55
2018 13.42
2019 13.13

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports