IDA total - Food exports

Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in IDA total was 21.26 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 49 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 42.02 in 1970 and a minimum value of 16.31 in 2008.

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
1970 42.02
1971 41.47
1972 35.17
1974 30.61
1975 32.11
1976 35.31
1977 31.60
1978 31.80
1979 30.08
1996 23.61
1997 24.02
1998 25.41
2000 20.94
2001 20.39
2002 19.42
2003 20.14
2006 18.43
2007 17.77
2008 16.31
2009 19.77
2010 18.51
2011 18.76
2012 17.93
2013 17.21
2014 20.79
2015 20.85
2016 23.40
2017 22.17
2018 22.03
2019 21.26

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports