Ecuador - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Ecuador was 55.57 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 96.45 in 1962 and a minimum value of 24.30 in 1983.

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 96.45
1963 95.74
1964 94.49
1965 92.15
1966 93.44
1967 93.78
1968 94.29
1969 92.96
1970 94.12
1971 93.19
1972 76.20
1973 42.00
1974 34.48
1975 35.52
1976 37.15
1977 46.73
1978 49.97
1979 39.82
1980 32.69
1981 33.16
1982 31.66
1983 24.30
1984 28.67
1985 32.11
1986 52.54
1987 55.41
1990 44.13
1991 55.16
1992 49.89
1993 47.13
1994 53.97
1995 51.76
1996 49.84
1997 57.04
1998 62.84
1999 52.91
2000 36.45
2001 41.99
2002 42.49
2003 40.69
2004 31.37
2005 28.22
2006 26.96
2007 27.12
2008 25.23
2009 35.69
2010 29.89
2011 29.82
2012 28.10
2013 30.56
2014 33.80
2015 45.99
2016 51.42
2017 50.02
2018 46.41
2019 48.05
2020 55.57

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