Tuvalu - Food imports
Food imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Tuvalu was 21.53 as of 2008. As the graph below shows, over the past 31 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 49.52 in 1979 and a minimum value of 21.53 in 2008.
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 |
|---|---|
| 1977 | 39.02 |
| 1978 | 44.20 |
| 1979 | 49.52 |
| 1980 | 37.58 |
| 1981 | 35.10 |
| 1982 | 27.17 |
| 1985 | 29.87 |
| 1997 | 33.75 |
| 1998 | 27.83 |
| 1999 | 31.59 |
| 2001 | 24.07 |
| 2002 | 24.88 |
| 2004 | 29.82 |
| 2005 | 30.70 |
| 2006 | 25.22 |
| 2008 | 21.53 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
