Qatar - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Qatar was 0.057 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 48 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.665 in 1972 and a minimum value of 0.001 in 2008.

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
1972 0.665
1973 0.544
1974 0.095
1975 0.104
1978 0.068
1991 0.291
1992 0.189
1993 0.237
1994 0.396
1995 0.351
1996 0.106
1998 0.072
1999 0.054
2000 0.049
2001 0.052
2002 0.097
2003 0.066
2004 0.071
2005 0.074
2006 0.029
2007 0.032
2008 0.001
2009 0.077
2010 0.005
2011 0.003
2012 0.035
2013 0.006
2014 0.006
2015 0.206
2016 0.093
2017 0.042
2018 0.035
2019 0.005
2020 0.057

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