Panama - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Panama was 5.25 as of 2017. As the graph below shows, over the past 55 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 85.15 in 2003 and a minimum value of 2.87 in 2012.

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 60.62
1963 48.32
1964 55.90
1965 62.82
1966 64.25
1967 70.37
1968 76.52
1969 73.80
1970 74.72
1971 74.40
1972 78.01
1973 75.46
1974 50.62
1975 49.88
1976 61.98
1977 62.69
1978 65.76
1979 63.36
1980 66.89
1981 70.71
1982 63.80
1983 76.54
1984 82.85
1985 78.00
1986 82.94
1987 82.04
1995 74.29
1996 71.18
1997 74.76
1998 75.30
1999 71.72
2000 76.47
2001 77.20
2002 79.09
2003 85.15
2004 83.80
2005 85.06
2006 84.35
2007 83.71
2008 83.83
2009 81.55
2010 65.40
2011 5.47
2012 2.87
2013 3.96
2014 4.89
2015 4.44
2016 8.62
2017 5.25

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