Peru - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Peru was 26.04 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 50.26 in 1971 and a minimum value of 12.30 in 1982.

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 36.62
1963 40.19
1964 40.80
1965 38.60
1966 37.36
1967 37.76
1968 38.64
1969 34.06
1970 43.52
1971 50.26
1972 43.74
1973 31.30
1974 30.36
1975 44.01
1976 31.44
1977 31.57
1978 27.59
1979 20.01
1980 15.78
1982 12.30
1983 13.09
1984 17.56
1985 16.87
1986 27.88
1987 23.02
1992 23.24
1993 28.65
1994 32.45
1995 28.81
1996 28.39
1997 31.51
1998 21.67
1999 24.27
2000 19.19
2001 25.48
2002 23.32
2003 20.18
2004 19.26
2005 17.01
2006 14.69
2007 13.69
2008 15.68
2009 17.07
2010 15.55
2011 16.17
2012 15.72
2013 15.85
2014 20.12
2015 21.74
2016 20.84
2017 19.42
2018 20.22
2019 22.57
2020 26.04

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