Benin - Food exports

Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Benin was 19.93 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 93.33 in 1962 and a minimum value of 15.31 in 1998.

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
1962 93.33
1963 89.59
1964 93.30
1965 88.66
1966 76.62
1967 67.76
1968 74.36
1969 73.80
1970 70.91
1971 74.31
1972 62.07
1973 61.25
1974 43.36
1979 70.70
1980 61.82
1982 35.96
1998 15.31
1999 16.11
2000 20.05
2001 19.06
2002 30.96
2003 18.59
2004 18.33
2005 25.90
2006 39.32
2007 38.04
2008 30.11
2009 49.30
2010 67.60
2011 38.06
2012 40.34
2013 36.95
2014 29.86
2015 31.85
2016 33.42
2017 33.58
2018 37.26
2019 29.02
2020 25.07
2021 19.93

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports