El Salvador - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in El Salvador was 18.85 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 81.72 in 1986 and a minimum value of 13.50 in 2002.

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
1963 60.09
1964 62.55
1965 60.74
1966 61.50
1967 60.79
1968 58.43
1969 56.00
1970 59.37
1971 53.33
1972 54.30
1973 57.35
1974 56.45
1975 55.67
1976 64.90
1977 69.71
1978 46.93
1979 64.99
1980 46.80
1981 44.57
1982 43.23
1983 48.75
1984 68.48
1985 67.59
1986 81.72
1987 70.97
1994 51.01
1995 57.12
1996 52.42
1997 55.12
1998 46.65
1999 42.09
2000 19.23
2001 14.75
2002 13.50
2003 13.59
2004 14.26
2005 17.25
2006 17.75
2007 19.15
2008 19.63
2009 19.29
2010 21.16
2011 24.34
2012 22.73
2013 21.84
2014 19.11
2015 19.60
2016 18.15
2017 18.73
2018 17.61
2019 18.82
2020 21.58
2021 18.85

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