Papua New Guinea - Agricultural raw materials imports

Agricultural raw materials imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Agricultural raw materials imports (% of merchandise imports) in Papua New Guinea was 0.407 as of 2012. As the graph below shows, over the past 41 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.761 in 1998 and a minimum value of 0.238 in 1972.

Definition: Agricultural raw materials comprise SITC section 2 (crude materials except fuels) excluding divisions 22, 27 (crude fertilizers and minerals excluding coal, petroleum, and precious stones), and 28 (metalliferous ores and scrap).

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
1971 0.250
1972 0.238
1973 0.309
1974 0.271
1975 0.285
1976 0.283
1981 0.311
1982 0.308
1983 0.345
1984 0.374
1985 0.363
1986 0.460
1987 0.481
1998 0.761
2000 0.711
2001 0.588
2002 0.683
2003 0.712
2004 0.648
2011 0.422
2012 0.407

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports