São Tomé and Principe - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in São Tomé and Principe was 33.55 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 21 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 41.70 in 2002 and a minimum value of 17.74 in 1999.

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
1999 17.74
2000 30.82
2001 36.59
2002 41.70
2003 38.45
2004 38.67
2005 38.45
2006 30.63
2007 28.33
2008 27.34
2009 35.91
2010 29.83
2011 32.42
2012 30.36
2013 30.63
2014 32.36
2015 31.05
2016 32.26
2017 29.73
2018 29.21
2019 30.94
2020 33.55

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