World - Food exports

Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in World was 9.31 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 22.09 in 1964 and a minimum value of 6.43 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
1963 21.96
1964 22.09
1965 21.22
1966 20.64
1967 20.16
1968 18.40
1969 17.17
1970 17.52
1971 17.62
1972 17.63
1973 17.45
1974 16.27
1975 16.74
1976 16.16
1977 16.42
1978 15.50
1979 14.88
1980 14.28
1981 14.39
1982 13.90
1983 13.51
1984 13.65
1985 12.44
1986 12.95
1987 12.54
1991 10.09
1992 10.39
1993 10.20
1994 10.15
1995 9.75
1996 9.57
1997 9.30
1998 8.81
1999 8.21
2000 7.10
2001 7.45
2002 7.47
2003 7.42
2004 7.01
2005 6.79
2006 6.43
2007 6.72
2008 7.11
2009 8.00
2010 7.70
2011 7.76
2012 7.92
2013 8.09
2014 8.38
2015 8.74
2016 8.93
2017 8.69
2018 8.31
2019 8.46
2020 9.31

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports