Greece - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Greece was 21.73 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 67.52 in 1963 and a minimum value of 17.10 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 58.77
1963 67.52
1964 65.45
1965 66.42
1966 62.56
1967 61.03
1968 53.17
1969 45.97
1970 41.20
1971 42.23
1972 42.42
1973 30.55
1974 30.53
1975 32.32
1976 31.80
1977 32.63
1978 32.55
1979 29.82
1980 25.76
1981 26.51
1982 29.35
1983 33.12
1984 30.44
1985 28.17
1986 31.57
1987 30.05
1988 24.62
1989 30.53
1990 29.51
1991 30.50
1992 33.54
1993 29.76
1994 29.45
1995 29.54
1996 29.61
1997 27.05
1998 27.40
1999 27.90
2000 21.77
2001 23.78
2002 24.01
2003 22.04
2004 19.96
2005 21.97
2006 20.29
2007 19.95
2008 19.30
2009 22.68
2010 20.16
2011 18.45
2012 17.10
2013 17.75
2014 17.41
2015 20.78
2016 22.70
2017 19.77
2018 18.00
2019 17.56
2020 21.73

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