Belgium - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Belgium was 8.43 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 11.91 in 2015 and a minimum value of 6.04 in 1962.

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 6.04
1963 6.89
1964 6.17
1965 7.07
1966 7.16
1967 8.25
1968 8.19
1969 8.06
1970 8.39
1971 9.29
1972 9.58
1973 9.62
1974 8.86
1975 10.10
1976 9.49
1977 9.66
1978 9.55
1979 9.27
1980 9.39
1981 10.74
1982 11.02
1983 10.18
1984 10.87
1985 10.27
1986 10.24
1987 10.26
1999 10.04
2000 8.92
2001 9.17
2002 8.56
2003 8.69
2004 8.33
2005 8.06
2006 7.80
2007 7.95
2008 8.59
2009 9.62
2010 10.83
2011 10.38
2012 10.94
2013 11.16
2014 11.19
2015 11.91
2016 11.54
2017 11.31
2018 10.90
2019 11.06
2020 11.84
2021 8.43

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