Costa Rica - Food exports

Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Costa Rica was 39.80 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 55 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 82.03 in 1965 and a minimum value of 24.68 in 2009.

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
1965 82.03
1966 78.86
1967 79.44
1968 78.05
1969 79.40
1970 79.03
1971 75.80
1972 78.13
1973 75.78
1974 72.18
1975 73.06
1976 70.37
1977 74.41
1978 69.21
1979 74.26
1980 63.70
1981 65.85
1982 69.31
1983 69.28
1984 72.01
1985 71.65
1986 73.69
1987 68.93
1994 61.19
1995 63.43
1996 65.60
1997 50.36
1998 41.43
1999 28.59
2000 30.03
2001 32.47
2002 31.30
2003 30.10
2004 32.35
2005 29.68
2006 29.59
2007 30.00
2008 31.86
2009 24.68
2010 34.62
2011 35.06
2012 33.90
2013 34.36
2014 37.01
2015 42.53
2016 44.37
2017 43.27
2018 41.09
2019 39.12
2020 39.80

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports