The Bahamas - Food imports
Food imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in The Bahamas was 19.23 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 44 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 20.21 in 2016 and a minimum value of 1.51 in 1981.
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 |
|---|---|
| 1974 | 4.20 |
| 1975 | 2.62 |
| 1976 | 2.66 |
| 1980 | 2.04 |
| 1981 | 1.51 |
| 1982 | 2.86 |
| 1983 | 3.44 |
| 1984 | 4.39 |
| 1985 | 6.05 |
| 1986 | 5.97 |
| 1987 | 7.28 |
| 1997 | 16.26 |
| 1998 | 16.49 |
| 1999 | 17.99 |
| 2000 | 16.72 |
| 2001 | 17.51 |
| 2002 | 18.64 |
| 2003 | 18.13 |
| 2004 | 18.36 |
| 2005 | 15.65 |
| 2006 | 14.91 |
| 2007 | 15.40 |
| 2008 | 15.70 |
| 2009 | 18.38 |
| 2010 | 17.53 |
| 2011 | 15.86 |
| 2012 | 15.88 |
| 2013 | 16.11 |
| 2014 | 16.05 |
| 2015 | 19.33 |
| 2016 | 20.21 |
| 2017 | 18.60 |
| 2018 | 19.23 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
