Eswatini - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Eswatini was 30.84 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 20 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 36.83 in 2001 and a minimum value of 13.52 in 2004.

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
2000 33.58
2001 36.83
2002 14.05
2003 14.73
2004 13.52
2005 18.83
2006 25.95
2007 21.13
2008 30.00
2009 34.85
2010 30.58
2011 24.74
2012 32.84
2013 33.41
2014 28.72
2015 29.67
2016 28.10
2017 24.41
2018 25.98
2019 28.70
2020 30.84

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