IDA blend - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in IDA blend was 10.81 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 45.59 in 1962 and a minimum value of 7.97 in 2006.

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
1962 45.59
1963 43.76
1964 42.44
1965 37.95
1966 34.43
1967 38.21
1968 44.12
1969 34.57
1970 27.36
1971 26.03
1972 20.64
1973 18.79
1974 16.81
1975 16.04
1976 19.15
1977 19.81
1978 19.33
1979 16.57
1981 15.38
1983 14.52
1984 16.47
1985 15.02
1986 17.84
1987 14.52
1996 10.50
1997 9.56
1998 11.03
1999 10.22
2000 10.46
2001 10.39
2002 8.94
2003 9.47
2006 7.97
2007 8.35
2008 10.53
2009 12.67
2010 11.14
2011 11.07
2012 11.24
2013 12.56
2014 8.44
2015 11.83
2016 11.89
2017 10.92
2018 11.31
2019 10.29
2020 10.81

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