Benin - Agricultural raw materials exports

Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports) in Benin was 74.88 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 79.97 in 1998 and a minimum value of 2.31 in 1962.

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.

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Year Value
1962 2.31
1963 5.40
1964 4.07
1965 4.89
1966 10.85
1967 9.28
1968 13.49
1969 17.77
1970 18.26
1971 19.37
1972 29.09
1973 30.65
1974 33.69
1979 12.83
1980 24.96
1982 12.41
1998 79.97
1999 76.02
2000 69.67
2001 59.59
2002 56.00
2003 74.17
2004 72.41
2005 64.33
2006 42.90
2007 47.88
2008 38.39
2009 31.41
2010 26.74
2011 39.72
2012 48.50
2013 49.14
2014 45.23
2015 49.80
2016 50.03
2017 54.42
2018 56.45
2019 64.56
2020 64.64
2021 74.88

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports