Greenland - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Greenland was 19.84 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 42 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 26.66 in 1976 and a minimum value of 14.20 in 1995.

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
1976 26.66
1977 24.92
1978 25.87
1979 20.50
1980 17.86
1981 17.33
1982 19.32
1983 21.61
1984 20.02
1985 18.09
1986 20.30
1987 20.19
1988 17.35
1989 18.45
1990 16.64
1991 19.53
1992 19.32
1993 16.56
1994 15.54
1995 14.20
1996 15.17
1997 15.61
1998 17.79
1999 17.59
2000 15.22
2001 15.96
2002 17.27
2003 19.29
2004 20.82
2005 17.98
2006 18.44
2007 19.36
2008 18.23
2009 22.19
2010 19.02
2011 18.16
2012 19.33
2013 17.96
2014 19.82
2015 22.15
2016 20.46
2017 20.81
2018 19.84

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports