Bhutan - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Bhutan was 6.94 as of 2012. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 48.32 in 2008 and a minimum value of 6.09 in 2009.

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
1993 23.12
1994 23.27
1998 15.09
1999 13.33
2005 10.64
2006 12.87
2007 10.24
2008 48.32
2009 6.09
2010 7.17
2011 8.45
2012 6.94

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 export shares may not sum to 100 percent because of unclassified trade.

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports