Ethiopia - Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports) in Ethiopia was 9.08 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 25 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 25.87 in 2003 and a minimum value of 1.17 in 2014.

Definition: Agricultural raw materials comprise SITC section 2 (crude materials except fuels) excluding divisions 22, 27 (crude fertilizers and minerals excluding coal, petroleum, and precious stones), and 28 (metalliferous ores and scrap).

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
1995 13.37
1997 10.75
1998 11.73
1999 17.24
2000 17.64
2001 23.81
2002 14.84
2003 25.87
2004 10.82
2005 12.90
2006 16.18
2007 9.30
2008 7.22
2009 3.24
2010 2.55
2011 1.90
2012 1.84
2013 1.82
2014 1.17
2015 1.25
2016 1.20
2017 1.70
2018 1.97
2019 9.09
2020 9.08

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