Bangladesh - Food exports

Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Bangladesh was 2.71 as of 2015. As the graph below shows, over the past 38 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 20.20 in 1986 and a minimum value of 2.64 in 2012.

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
1977 13.05
1978 13.68
1979 12.72
1980 12.45
1981 15.70
1982 19.97
1983 19.28
1984 17.98
1985 17.92
1986 20.20
1987 18.64
1989 17.89
1990 14.33
1991 12.64
1992 11.03
1993 11.84
1994 13.61
1995 10.45
1996 10.09
1997 8.36
1998 7.23
2000 7.61
2001 6.07
2002 6.82
2003 5.79
2004 6.18
2005 6.22
2006 5.93
2007 6.52
2008 4.82
2009 3.69
2010 4.03
2011 3.86
2012 2.64
2013 3.95
2015 2.71

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports