Nicaragua - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Nicaragua was 48.59 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 55 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 84.90 in 2000 and a minimum value of 37.57 in 1974.

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
1965 39.80
1966 41.92
1967 44.61
1968 45.83
1969 51.50
1970 56.81
1971 55.43
1972 53.48
1973 53.48
1974 37.57
1975 51.41
1976 54.80
1977 56.03
1978 57.12
1979 61.12
1980 74.60
1981 61.45
1982 67.65
1983 65.18
1984 56.02
1985 56.61
1986 74.37
1993 71.38
1994 80.49
1995 73.51
1996 59.49
1997 68.71
1998 82.94
1999 82.66
2000 84.90
2001 77.27
2002 77.76
2003 78.59
2004 79.86
2005 80.51
2006 79.35
2007 80.53
2008 48.35
2009 81.35
2010 77.61
2011 75.30
2012 48.78
2013 44.57
2014 47.47
2015 47.65
2016 44.13
2017 48.86
2018 46.56
2019 45.61
2020 48.59

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