Uruguay - Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports) in Uruguay was 14.31 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 50 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 31.46 in 1971 and a minimum value of 8.44 in 2012.

Definition: Agricultural raw materials comprise SITC section 2 (crude materials except fuels) excluding divisions 22, 27 (crude fertilizers and minerals excluding coal, petroleum, and precious stones), and 28 (metalliferous ores and scrap).

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

See also:

Year Value
1970 30.75
1971 31.46
1972 26.12
1974 23.90
1975 25.40
1976 21.35
1977 22.41
1978 21.68
1979 14.95
1980 21.94
1981 21.19
1982 22.41
1983 18.79
1984 20.64
1985 21.93
1986 21.24
1987 23.17
1993 16.20
1994 14.95
1995 14.87
1996 15.20
1997 13.03
1998 8.71
1999 9.26
2000 9.30
2001 10.85
2002 12.67
2003 11.20
2004 9.48
2005 9.23
2006 9.77
2007 10.49
2008 10.50
2009 9.79
2010 10.51
2011 10.45
2012 8.44
2013 8.88
2014 10.24
2015 13.48
2016 14.35
2017 14.69
2018 17.51
2019 15.04
2020 14.31

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