Lesotho - Food exports

Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Lesotho was 3.56 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 20 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 26.69 in 2013 and a minimum value of 1.65 in 2018.

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
2000 2.16
2001 14.34
2002 7.16
2003 8.61
2004 4.67
2008 13.53
2009 8.93
2010 16.59
2011 14.16
2012 14.34
2013 26.69
2014 9.04
2015 9.52
2016 4.22
2017 3.82
2018 1.65
2019 2.97
2020 3.56

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports