Micronesia - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Micronesia was 27.76 as of 2013. As the graph below shows, over the past 10 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 37.03 in 2003 and a minimum value of 27.46 in 2010.

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
2003 37.03
2004 34.24
2005 32.86
2006 31.85
2007 28.95
2008 28.87
2009 30.46
2010 27.46
2011 28.33
2012 29.73
2013 27.76

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports