Suriname - Food exports

Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Suriname was 7.03 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 22.34 in 1996 and a minimum value of 1.31 in 2006.

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
1962 21.12
1965 10.91
1973 9.16
1974 12.91
1994 18.29
1995 18.58
1996 22.34
1997 15.83
1998 12.18
1999 15.05
2000 2.70
2001 3.45
2002 4.38
2003 2.56
2004 1.96
2005 1.38
2006 1.31
2007 1.45
2008 2.27
2009 2.22
2010 2.40
2011 1.85
2012 3.64
2013 2.37
2014 3.36
2015 6.89
2016 8.76
2017 7.17
2018 7.39
2019 7.03

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports