Chad - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Chad was 16.15 as of 1975. As the graph below shows, over the past 13 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 23.85 in 1971 and a minimum value of 8.64 in 1968.

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
1962 16.76
1963 16.12
1964 11.26
1965 11.96
1966 15.35
1967 11.15
1968 8.64
1969 11.02
1970 22.65
1971 23.85
1972 18.43
1973 16.92
1974 19.19
1975 16.15

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