France - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in France was 13.97 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 18.95 in 1973 and a minimum value of 10.46 in 2006.

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
1962 14.46
1963 15.99
1964 16.50
1965 16.38
1966 16.28
1967 15.97
1968 17.08
1969 17.65
1970 15.80
1971 17.51
1972 18.34
1973 18.95
1974 17.41
1975 15.64
1976 15.26
1977 14.57
1978 15.55
1979 14.84
1980 16.05
1981 17.00
1982 16.50
1983 16.91
1984 16.39
1985 16.32
1986 16.30
1987 16.18
1988 16.46
1989 16.25
1990 15.81
1991 15.32
1992 15.53
1993 15.94
1994 14.82
1995 14.37
1996 14.02
1997 13.65
1998 12.76
1999 12.42
2000 10.97
2001 10.63
2002 11.23
2003 11.62
2004 11.01
2005 10.71
2006 10.46
2007 10.92
2008 11.56
2009 12.40
2010 11.96
2011 12.65
2012 12.57
2013 13.15
2014 12.67
2015 12.64
2016 12.43
2017 12.55
2018 12.31
2019 12.35
2020 13.97

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