Lao PDR - Food exports

Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Lao PDR was 28.07 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 29.34 in 2016 and a minimum value of 0.81 in 1973.

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 25.49
1963 18.00
1964 8.91
1965 11.92
1966 21.10
1967 16.16
1968 7.83
1969 7.91
1970 5.50
1971 1.52
1972 1.06
1973 0.81
1974 2.56
2010 24.32
2011 12.28
2012 14.83
2013 14.16
2014 17.34
2015 21.06
2016 29.34
2017 20.82
2018 17.17
2019 13.47
2020 28.07

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports