OECD members - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in OECD members was 9.17 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 20.51 in 1962 and a minimum value of 6.78 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 20.51
1963 18.15
1964 18.64
1965 18.03
1966 17.76
1967 17.16
1968 15.56
1969 14.85
1970 14.88
1971 14.91
1972 15.12
1973 15.66
1974 14.39
1975 14.72
1976 14.11
1977 14.40
1978 14.33
1979 13.73
1980 12.97
1981 13.04
1982 12.47
1983 12.15
1984 11.70
1985 10.77
1986 11.32
1987 10.81
1988 9.28
1989 9.88
1990 9.66
1991 9.94
1992 10.14
1993 9.85
1994 9.71
1995 9.39
1996 9.32
1997 8.64
1998 8.30
1999 8.02
2000 7.03
2001 7.35
2002 7.44
2003 7.52
2004 7.22
2005 7.02
2006 6.78
2007 7.03
2008 7.53
2009 8.53
2010 8.08
2011 8.16
2012 8.31
2013 8.58
2014 8.74
2015 8.95
2016 9.23
2017 9.02
2018 8.57
2019 8.73
2020 9.85
2021 9.17

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