Trinidad and Tobago - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Trinidad and Tobago was 11.42 as of 2015. As the graph below shows, over the past 47 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 22.89 in 1985 and a minimum value of 7.62 in 1974.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1968 11.68
1969 12.43
1970 11.26
1971 10.06
1972 10.17
1973 11.84
1974 7.62
1975 10.06
1976 7.63
1977 9.98
1978 11.11
1979 12.79
1980 11.07
1981 12.88
1982 11.84
1983 17.37
1984 22.11
1985 22.89
1986 17.55
1987 21.72
1991 15.43
1992 17.21
1993 14.60
1994 19.30
1995 15.68
1996 13.54
1997 10.46
1998 11.30
1999 11.30
2000 8.31
2001 8.83
2002 8.79
2003 9.48
2004 8.64
2005 9.03
2006 7.78
2007 8.09
2008 8.26
2009 10.06
2010 11.19
2011 9.12
2012 8.63
2013 8.13
2014 9.53
2015 11.42

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