Tonga - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Tonga was 27.18 as of 2014. As the graph below shows, over the past 39 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 35.80 in 1976 and a minimum value of 19.76 in 2002.

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
1975 34.40
1976 35.80
1977 33.73
1978 35.11
1979 33.18
1980 30.26
1981 30.37
1982 27.49
1983 29.98
1984 30.27
1985 28.53
1986 28.87
1987 27.40
2000 23.23
2001 21.59
2002 19.76
2003 19.77
2004 21.97
2005 20.49
2006 22.05
2007 21.96
2008 28.56
2009 33.72
2010 29.14
2011 29.81
2012 29.02
2013 29.75
2014 27.18

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