Spain - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Spain was 17.40 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 55.50 in 1962 and a minimum value of 13.55 in 2006.

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 55.50
1963 52.09
1964 52.85
1965 47.17
1966 43.56
1967 44.98
1968 36.59
1969 33.26
1970 35.12
1971 30.84
1972 27.94
1973 29.29
1974 24.05
1975 22.23
1976 22.52
1977 21.17
1978 19.71
1979 20.29
1980 17.98
1981 18.54
1982 16.13
1983 15.74
1984 15.65
1985 14.89
1986 16.34
1987 17.78
1988 17.22
1989 15.76
1990 14.73
1991 15.43
1992 15.19
1993 15.91
1994 15.84
1995 15.43
1996 15.52
1997 15.85
1998 15.25
1999 14.60
2000 13.55
2001 14.57
2002 15.05
2003 15.07
2004 14.50
2005 14.10
2006 13.55
2007 13.67
2008 14.28
2009 16.17
2010 15.15
2011 14.55
2012 15.27
2013 15.36
2014 15.74
2015 16.49
2016 16.99
2017 16.81
2018 15.87
2019 16.42
2020 18.96
2021 17.40

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