Niger - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Niger was 5.79 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 93.96 in 1963 and a minimum value of 5.79 in 2020.

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 92.01
1963 93.96
1964 87.72
1965 88.24
1966 87.87
1967 89.54
1968 89.22
1969 85.31
1970 91.26
1971 67.49
1972 72.17
1973 48.73
1974 34.01
1975 30.16
1976 30.69
1977 20.28
1978 12.26
1979 8.63
1981 16.34
1995 18.51
1996 34.06
1997 26.68
1998 30.35
1999 37.77
2000 45.00
2001 46.31
2002 37.43
2003 35.16
2004 43.20
2005 30.00
2006 34.00
2007 26.50
2008 43.37
2009 29.97
2010 18.36
2011 12.62
2012 16.06
2013 7.85
2014 11.52
2015 14.07
2016 37.34
2017 60.03
2018 47.17
2019 20.99
2020 5.79

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