French Polynesia - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in French Polynesia was 27.09 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 52.75 in 1962 and a minimum value of 2.68 in 1996.

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
1962 52.75
1973 23.47
1974 17.16
1975 17.94
1976 21.97
1977 33.23
1978 12.46
1979 32.14
1980 25.14
1981 18.92
1982 18.48
1983 13.57
1996 2.68
1997 4.35
1998 3.39
1999 4.28
2000 5.92
2001 12.18
2002 12.82
2003 14.52
2004 14.69
2005 12.92
2006 12.45
2007 12.27
2008 10.59
2009 15.19
2010 15.80
2011 18.77
2012 26.04
2013 18.91
2014 18.17
2015 24.64
2016 15.77
2017 19.40
2018 22.72
2019 25.58
2020 27.09

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