Guatemala - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Guatemala was 45.80 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 56 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 74.93 in 1986 and a minimum value of 33.82 in 2005.

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 64.44
1966 61.84
1967 58.99
1968 55.29
1969 55.69
1970 58.65
1971 59.80
1972 57.67
1973 58.10
1974 56.15
1975 58.47
1976 60.02
1977 64.73
1978 61.10
1979 52.12
1980 53.45
1981 54.04
1982 58.00
1983 59.96
1984 57.85
1985 62.28
1986 74.93
1987 67.92
1993 62.81
1994 62.04
1995 65.18
1996 60.55
1997 61.14
1998 60.79
1999 57.67
2000 56.18
2001 51.20
2002 48.19
2003 47.02
2004 45.23
2005 33.82
2006 49.80
2007 37.33
2008 37.67
2009 44.28
2010 42.04
2011 40.54
2012 44.09
2013 43.81
2014 42.35
2015 42.76
2016 44.94
2017 47.64
2018 47.31
2019 48.18
2020 51.42
2021 45.80

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