Faroe Islands - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Faroe Islands was 17.07 as of 2009. As the graph below shows, over the past 33 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 28.19 in 1992 and a minimum value of 9.87 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.

See also:

Year Value
1976 15.02
1977 13.79
1978 14.24
1979 14.41
1980 13.70
1981 14.15
1982 13.72
1983 10.85
1984 9.87
1985 10.55
1986 12.33
1987 10.28
1988 14.16
1989 16.36
1990 20.86
1991 25.61
1992 28.19
1993 27.86
1994 27.86
1996 22.33
1997 23.07
1998 24.33
1999 20.33
2000 17.27
2001 19.24
2002 19.32
2003 15.23
2004 18.04
2005 13.23
2006 13.58
2007 13.16
2008 15.54
2009 17.07

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports