Rwanda - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Rwanda was 34.71 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 23 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 79.30 in 1999 and a minimum value of 0.11 in 2002.

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
1996 57.02
1997 54.49
1998 69.44
1999 79.30
2001 56.66
2002 0.11
2003 61.43
2004 58.84
2005 56.61
2006 61.29
2007 44.52
2008 66.32
2009 49.62
2010 52.51
2011 43.68
2012 48.00
2013 36.68
2014 36.24
2015 46.58
2016 44.94
2017 35.56
2018 37.98
2019 34.71

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