Turkey - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Turkey was 12.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 66.99 in 1962 and a minimum value of 8.11 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
1962 66.99
1963 60.54
1964 60.68
1965 59.80
1966 56.30
1967 60.92
1968 55.36
1969 60.08
1970 49.28
1971 48.09
1972 53.58
1973 48.51
1974 46.47
1975 45.45
1976 42.15
1977 51.30
1978 53.09
1979 52.73
1980 51.07
1981 46.00
1982 39.27
1983 38.26
1984 30.76
1985 25.21
1986 29.87
1987 25.30
1989 22.96
1990 22.42
1991 25.97
1992 22.75
1993 22.56
1994 21.94
1995 19.57
1996 19.73
1997 19.56
1998 17.36
1999 15.36
2000 12.81
2001 12.76
2002 10.12
2003 10.02
2004 9.33
2005 10.50
2006 9.27
2007 8.40
2008 8.11
2009 10.36
2010 10.42
2011 10.53
2012 9.86
2013 11.17
2014 11.76
2015 12.03
2016 11.89
2017 11.18
2018 10.72
2019 10.72
2020 12.00

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