The Bahamas - Fuel imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Fuel imports (% of merchandise imports) in The Bahamas was 16.56 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 44 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 94.06 in 1981 and a minimum value of 6.21 in 1998.

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
1974 83.55
1975 91.45
1976 91.08
1980 91.04
1981 94.06
1982 89.53
1983 87.19
1984 82.50
1985 73.72
1986 73.73
1987 66.08
1997 9.16
1998 6.21
1999 9.85
2000 10.36
2001 15.19
2002 12.93
2003 13.73
2004 14.49
2005 19.79
2006 20.29
2007 19.85
2008 26.22
2009 20.65
2010 24.01
2011 27.27
2012 23.99
2013 21.60
2014 22.91
2015 16.93
2016 13.73
2017 15.93
2018 16.56

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