Egypt - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Egypt was 18.07 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 55 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 27.32 in 1969 and a minimum value of 5.60 in 1985.

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
1965 14.59
1966 15.31
1967 20.62
1968 24.46
1969 27.32
1970 21.28
1971 18.39
1972 15.32
1973 19.15
1974 16.55
1975 17.41
1976 19.72
1977 18.60
1978 15.85
1979 9.60
1980 6.78
1981 7.18
1982 7.42
1983 7.62
1984 7.34
1985 5.60
1986 6.82
1987 11.37
1994 8.30
1995 9.90
1996 10.61
1997 7.64
1998 12.18
1999 9.02
2000 8.00
2001 9.96
2002 8.75
2003 8.50
2004 9.77
2005 8.75
2006 6.53
2007 7.88
2008 10.73
2009 16.78
2010 16.54
2011 14.21
2012 13.73
2013 15.90
2014 16.75
2015 20.62
2016 20.25
2017 17.61
2018 15.79
2019 16.56
2020 18.07

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