Sudan - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Sudan was 6.26 as of 2011. As the graph below shows, over the past 48 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 70.34 in 1999 and a minimum value of 2.40 in 2007.

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
1963 29.49
1964 37.80
1965 36.03
1966 36.01
1967 30.58
1968 27.54
1969 28.86
1970 24.55
1971 28.78
1972 28.84
1973 32.88
1974 44.63
1975 42.45
1976 38.93
1978 37.44
1979 28.64
1980 46.88
1981 58.77
1982 60.97
1984 42.72
1985 45.19
1995 44.37
1996 60.58
1997 58.01
1998 64.64
1999 70.34
2000 16.73
2001 10.41
2002 17.55
2003 10.43
2004 10.53
2005 6.84
2006 5.56
2007 2.40
2008 2.58
2009 5.82
2010 3.52
2011 6.26

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