Gabon - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Gabon was 17.14 as of 2009. As the graph below shows, over the past 47 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 24.24 in 2004 and a minimum value of 11.31 in 1977.

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
1962 21.68
1963 18.33
1964 18.12
1965 15.96
1966 15.27
1967 15.63
1968 16.90
1969 14.38
1970 14.26
1971 14.05
1975 13.15
1976 11.71
1977 11.31
1978 19.42
1979 19.00
1980 19.14
1981 16.02
1982 16.68
1983 17.98
1993 19.39
1994 17.33
1996 19.15
1997 17.61
1998 15.40
1999 19.17
2000 18.24
2001 18.32
2002 15.88
2003 15.04
2004 24.24
2005 19.10
2006 16.62
2007 18.11
2008 17.54
2009 17.14

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