Cyprus - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Cyprus was 30.14 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 51 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 63.22 in 1972 and a minimum value of 23.76 in 2018.

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
1970 49.79
1971 60.78
1972 63.22
1973 59.81
1974 53.76
1975 44.81
1976 49.75
1977 47.05
1978 42.86
1979 38.09
1980 33.55
1981 32.94
1982 37.30
1983 32.93
1984 34.91
1985 32.12
1986 36.69
1987 32.16
1989 37.67
1990 42.04
1991 40.80
1992 37.85
1993 38.29
1994 39.22
1995 45.74
1996 43.01
1997 36.35
1998 38.64
1999 38.71
2000 33.31
2001 33.36
2002 35.43
2003 41.46
2004 46.15
2005 45.14
2006 39.64
2007 39.79
2008 37.79
2009 37.11
2010 34.44
2011 37.12
2012 33.69
2013 36.13
2014 34.27
2015 31.38
2016 32.24
2017 27.74
2018 23.76
2019 31.24
2020 33.38
2021 30.14

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