Nigeria - Food exports

Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Nigeria was 2.98 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 64.52 in 1962 and a minimum value of 0.02 in 2001.

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
1962 64.52
1963 62.31
1964 61.00
1965 54.38
1966 46.87
1967 51.12
1968 63.29
1969 42.10
1970 31.35
1971 19.45
1972 12.80
1973 11.76
1974 5.07
1975 5.17
1976 4.47
1977 5.66
1978 7.53
1979 3.58
1981 2.18
1983 3.77
1984 2.73
1985 2.18
1986 5.12
1987 3.14
1996 1.65
1997 0.15
1998 0.42
1999 0.30
2000 0.14
2001 0.02
2002 0.64
2003 0.02
2006 0.06
2007 1.62
2008 1.29
2009 4.53
2010 3.34
2011 1.80
2012 5.35
2013 5.05
2014 1.87
2015 2.89
2016 1.97
2017 1.83
2018 1.98
2019 1.80
2020 2.98

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports