St. Kitts and Nevis - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in St. Kitts and Nevis was 13.48 as of 2017. As the graph below shows, over the past 36 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 74.46 in 1982 and a minimum value of 4.47 in 2005.

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
1981 71.54
1982 74.46
1983 71.13
1986 52.82
1987 42.04
1993 60.94
1994 68.34
1995 58.28
1996 71.51
1997 65.97
1999 29.48
2000 26.96
2001 26.79
2002 30.19
2003 22.52
2004 29.00
2005 4.47
2006 7.62
2007 10.13
2008 10.01
2009 10.72
2010 12.60
2011 12.60
2012 11.49
2013 11.72
2014 14.05
2015 17.95
2016 14.37
2017 13.48

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