Papua New Guinea - Fuel imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Fuel imports (% of merchandise imports) in Papua New Guinea was 17.20 as of 2012. As the graph below shows, over the past 41 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 22.51 in 2001 and a minimum value of 2.53 in 1998.

Definition: Fuels comprise the commodities in SITC section 3 (mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials).

Source: World Bank staff estimates through the WITS platform from the Comtrade database maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division.

See also:

Year Value
1971 3.40
1972 5.01
1973 4.85
1974 8.58
1975 10.71
1976 13.63
1981 21.06
1982 19.20
1983 20.97
1984 18.01
1985 17.08
1986 10.28
1987 10.66
1998 2.53
2000 22.12
2001 22.51
2002 12.98
2003 13.30
2004 16.88
2011 8.93
2012 17.20

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