Ghana - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Ghana was 21.98 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 89.60 in 1984 and a minimum value of 16.68 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.

See also:

Year Value
1962 72.91
1963 76.73
1964 72.48
1965 73.83
1966 70.52
1967 75.07
1968 71.27
1969 63.12
1970 77.75
1971 73.14
1972 67.18
1973 64.61
1974 74.23
1975 77.77
1976 70.25
1977 75.53
1978 76.67
1979 81.92
1980 78.42
1981 51.33
1982 61.62
1983 63.24
1984 89.60
1992 29.28
1996 40.90
1997 37.42
1998 56.60
1999 51.03
2000 30.15
2001 33.27
2003 40.17
2004 52.01
2005 37.13
2006 41.94
2007 36.72
2008 34.92
2009 25.59
2010 21.63
2011 20.20
2012 16.68
2013 18.40
2014 26.95
2015 34.76
2016 29.98
2017 23.85
2018 26.06
2019 21.98

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