Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) - Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports) in Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) was 5.01 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 54 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 23.22 in 1968 and a minimum value of 4.06 in 2015.

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
1965 21.59
1966 21.81
1967 21.03
1968 23.22
1970 19.44
1971 19.78
1972 20.16
1973 20.84
1974 18.22
1975 14.83
1976 14.87
1977 12.94
1978 13.30
1979 13.14
1995 13.11
1996 13.24
1997 14.06
1998 12.33
1999 12.23
2000 10.39
2001 9.37
2002 8.81
2003 10.29
2004 9.73
2005 9.31
2006 6.27
2007 7.04
2008 6.86
2009 5.12
2010 4.65
2011 5.86
2012 5.36
2013 5.04
2014 4.55
2015 4.06
2016 5.25
2017 4.78
2018 4.64
2019 5.01

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