São Tomé and Principe - Fuel exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Fuel exports (% of merchandise exports) in São Tomé and Principe was 0.004 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 15 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.746 in 2012 and a minimum value of 0.000 in 2007.

Definition: Fuels comprise the commodities in SITC section 3 (mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials).

Source: World Bank staff estimates through the WITS platform from the Comtrade database maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division.

See also:

Year Value
2003 0.005
2007 0.000
2008 0.000
2009 0.000
2011 0.000
2012 0.746
2017 0.001
2018 0.004

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