Samoa - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Samoa was 25.47 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 49.79 in 1966 and a minimum value of 19.79 in 2006.

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
1962 35.38
1963 38.75
1964 33.81
1965 36.37
1966 49.79
1967 39.94
1968 40.94
1969 33.39
1970 28.96
1971 33.32
1972 31.73
1973 31.25
1974 38.30
1975 34.60
1976 37.14
1977 30.09
1978 28.66
1979 23.94
1980 24.83
1981 21.17
1982 25.12
1983 23.52
2001 24.38
2002 27.01
2003 27.40
2004 23.33
2005 21.32
2006 19.79
2007 24.82
2008 25.52
2009 30.09
2010 24.54
2011 26.08
2012 25.75
2013 27.29
2014 24.27
2015 26.85
2016 28.22
2017 27.77
2018 28.43
2019 25.47

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports