North America - Food exports

Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in North America was 11.72 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 21.77 in 1964 and a minimum value of 7.19 in 2000.

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 20.55
1963 21.50
1964 21.77
1965 21.03
1966 21.07
1967 18.14
1968 15.97
1969 14.07
1970 15.19
1971 15.64
1972 16.77
1973 21.58
1974 19.43
1975 18.37
1976 17.70
1977 17.20
1978 18.13
1979 17.27
1980 16.97
1981 17.28
1982 16.32
1983 16.72
1984 15.56
1985 12.59
1986 11.88
1987 11.18
1989 10.93
1990 10.55
1991 10.11
1992 10.55
1993 9.94
1994 9.63
1995 9.90
1996 10.13
1997 8.85
1998 8.23
1999 7.68
2000 7.19
2001 7.89
2002 8.02
2003 8.38
2004 7.90
2005 7.39
2006 7.23
2007 8.11
2008 9.30
2009 10.34
2010 9.78
2011 9.87
2012 9.98
2013 10.07
2014 10.45
2015 10.46
2016 11.08
2017 10.61
2018 9.94
2019 9.89
2020 12.26
2021 11.72

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports