Vanuatu - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Vanuatu was 24.96 as of 2011. As the graph below shows, over the past 41 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 31.19 in 1984 and a minimum value of 20.22 in 2009.

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
1970 29.09
1971 28.80
1972 24.39
1973 29.95
1974 30.22
1975 24.95
1980 29.51
1981 29.67
1982 26.55
1983 25.83
1984 31.19
1993 21.43
2000 21.86
2006 21.54
2007 21.32
2009 20.22
2010 23.17
2011 24.96

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