Barbados - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Barbados was 21.86 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 54 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 27.68 in 1967 and a minimum value of 14.46 in 1984.

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
1967 27.68
1968 26.51
1969 25.14
1970 24.53
1971 25.57
1972 27.00
1973 27.68
1974 26.47
1975 25.27
1976 24.59
1977 22.87
1978 22.95
1979 19.32
1980 17.91
1981 17.46
1982 17.01
1983 14.89
1984 14.46
1985 14.99
1986 15.59
1987 19.41
1992 21.64
1993 19.90
1994 20.56
1995 18.26
1996 17.67
1997 17.69
1998 16.74
1999 16.32
2000 15.42
2001 17.15
2002 18.87
2003 17.05
2004 20.11
2005 15.10
2006 15.33
2007 20.37
2008 18.96
2009 20.64
2010 24.91
2011 18.59
2012 19.00
2013 19.62
2014 19.75
2015 21.49
2016 21.15
2017 21.96
2018 22.61
2019 22.98
2020 23.08
2021 21.86

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports