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Reading no. 2025/289

EconomyObserved dataAnnual fixture: World Food Day

Share of food in merchandise imports, Pacific

41.4% of imports

Pacific

KiribatiSamoaTongaPalauSolomon IslandsFijiPapua New GuineaNew Caledonia

Share of food products in merchandise imports, latest known year of each territory up to 2023: the top ten of the Pacific.

  1. Kiribati41.4
  2. Samoa30.1
  3. Tonga27.5
  4. Palau23.0
  5. Solomon Islands22.2
  6. Fiji19.0
  7. Papua New Guinea16.5
  8. New Caledonia15.8
  9. French Polynesia15.5
  10. New Zealand11.3

In the first territory of the ranking, Kiribati, food accounts for 41.4% of merchandise imports.

Observation

Method

World Bank indicator TM.VAL.FOOD.ZS.UN, read for seventeen territories of the Pacific from 2015 to 2023. The latest published value of each is kept, then the ten highest are ranked.

Source

Nature

Observed data

Value read at the source and reproduced without processing.

Recurring annual series. This reading is published every year on this date.

Confidence

Medium

See also

2024/290 · 16 Oct97.2% of exportsShare of food in merchandise exports, Pacific2026/271 · 28 Sep17.08t CO2eCO2 emissions per capita in the Pacific2025/352 · 18 Dec42.6% of GDPRemittances received as a share of gross domestic product, Pacific2025/046 · 15 Feb31.20°CSea temperature off 10 places in the Pacific

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