Caribbean small states - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Caribbean small states was 16.31 as of 2015. As the graph below shows, over the past 43 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 19.07 in 1985 and a minimum value of 11.93 in 2006.

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
1972 15.41
1973 17.16
1974 13.44
1975 14.16
1976 13.97
1977 16.28
1978 17.75
1979 16.36
1980 14.34
1981 13.85
1982 13.70
1983 15.88
1984 18.63
1985 19.07
1986 17.38
1987 19.02
1992 16.53
1993 16.05
1994 17.56
1995 16.37
1996 15.35
1997 14.77
1998 15.28
1999 15.53
2000 13.33
2001 13.72
2002 13.82
2003 13.56
2004 13.37
2005 12.85
2006 11.93
2007 12.44
2008 12.33
2009 15.10
2010 15.78
2011 14.03
2012 14.34
2013 13.99
2014 14.87
2015 16.31

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports