St. Lucia - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in St. Lucia was 27.08 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 46 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 30.35 in 1975 and a minimum value of 17.98 in 2013.

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
1973 29.09
1974 29.29
1975 30.35
1976 27.40
1977 26.10
1978 23.99
1979 22.05
1980 20.99
1981 24.37
1982 24.98
1983 26.53
1985 25.35
1986 23.45
1987 24.33
1991 23.75
1992 23.72
1993 24.26
1994 24.99
1995 26.71
1996 25.77
1997 25.54
1998 26.07
1999 23.59
2000 22.87
2001 26.49
2002 23.28
2003 22.12
2004 23.63
2005 21.58
2006 19.67
2007 20.39
2008 21.13
2009 24.56
2010 24.08
2011 23.26
2012 24.30
2013 17.98
2014 24.80
2015 26.59
2016 22.62
2017 24.65
2018 25.37
2019 27.08

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