Arab World - Food exports

Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Arab World was 3.84 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 42 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 4.85 in 1993 and a minimum value of 1.68 in 1991.

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.

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Year Value
1978 2.87
1979 3.09
1991 1.68
1992 2.44
1993 4.85
1999 2.44
2000 1.82
2001 2.03
2002 2.00
2003 1.95
2004 1.95
2005 2.74
2006 1.73
2007 1.77
2008 1.76
2009 2.44
2010 2.28
2011 2.13
2012 2.31
2013 2.28
2014 2.46
2015 3.33
2016 3.24
2017 3.32
2018 4.18
2019 3.77
2020 3.84

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports