South Africa - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in South Africa was 11.85 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 46 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 28.68 in 1975 and a minimum value of 5.73 in 1984.

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
1974 27.26
1975 28.68
1976 23.13
1977 18.92
1978 17.17
1979 14.66
1980 8.74
1981 9.81
1982 9.40
1983 6.45
1984 5.73
1992 8.16
1993 6.47
1994 8.57
1995 7.92
1996 11.01
1997 10.80
1998 12.09
1999 10.18
2000 8.49
2001 9.02
2002 10.62
2003 9.88
2004 8.72
2005 8.49
2006 7.10
2007 6.58
2008 7.34
2009 10.15
2010 9.96
2011 8.34
2012 8.85
2013 9.82
2014 10.27
2015 10.67
2016 11.16
2017 10.90
2018 11.11
2019 10.98
2020 11.85

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