Antigua and Barbuda - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Antigua and Barbuda was 77.93 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 46 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 77.93 in 2019 and a minimum value of 1.49 in 1973.

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
1973 1.49
1974 1.62
1975 3.03
1977 36.07
1978 17.45
1981 8.70
1999 16.53
2000 27.23
2005 18.68
2007 37.97
2009 48.31
2010 50.65
2011 58.69
2012 56.84
2013 37.79
2014 25.68
2015 52.10
2016 54.78
2017 52.27
2018 42.75
2019 77.93

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