Burundi - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Burundi was 49.86 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 55 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 99.11 in 1998 and a minimum value of 26.60 in 2013.

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
1965 75.27
1974 88.37
1975 91.64
1976 93.25
1993 30.23
1994 51.16
1995 59.84
1996 66.37
1997 98.30
1998 99.11
1999 70.12
2000 85.82
2001 74.74
2002 81.45
2003 45.08
2004 44.06
2005 45.12
2006 31.18
2007 35.05
2008 36.94
2009 50.18
2010 72.45
2011 50.16
2012 37.49
2013 26.60
2014 59.15
2015 63.55
2016 66.24
2017 60.00
2018 55.00
2019 44.60
2020 49.86

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