Haiti - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Haiti was 15.46 as of 1997. As the graph below shows, over the past 27 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 53.74 in 1971 and a minimum value of 13.83 in 1993.

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
1970 51.71
1971 53.74
1972 51.66
1973 52.56
1974 45.02
1975 42.28
1976 44.57
1977 50.78
1978 48.35
1979 35.71
1981 29.51
1988 21.97
1989 27.23
1990 13.90
1991 14.58
1992 16.61
1993 13.83
1994 24.42
1995 37.48
1996 22.34
1997 15.46

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