South Africa - Food exports

Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in South Africa was 11.85 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 46 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 28.68 in 1975 and a minimum value of 5.73 in 1984.

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.

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Year Value
1974 27.26
1975 28.68
1976 23.13
1977 18.92
1978 17.17
1979 14.66
1980 8.74
1981 9.81
1982 9.40
1983 6.45
1984 5.73
1992 8.16
1993 6.47
1994 8.57
1995 7.92
1996 11.01
1997 10.80
1998 12.09
1999 10.18
2000 8.49
2001 9.02
2002 10.62
2003 9.88
2004 8.72
2005 8.49
2006 7.10
2007 6.58
2008 7.34
2009 10.15
2010 9.96
2011 8.34
2012 8.85
2013 9.82
2014 10.27
2015 10.67
2016 11.16
2017 10.90
2018 11.11
2019 10.98
2020 11.85

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports