Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) was 30.15 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 54 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 49.76 in 1968 and a minimum value of 25.10 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 47.90
1966 47.26
1967 47.54
1968 49.76
1970 46.60
1971 47.93
1972 42.83
1973 39.59
1974 40.01
1975 42.19
1976 45.53
1977 48.04
1978 47.85
1979 46.83
1995 43.62
1996 43.51
1997 44.05
1998 48.27
1999 46.17
2000 39.64
2001 39.06
2002 40.60
2003 39.99
2004 39.11
2005 35.66
2006 34.83
2007 29.84
2008 26.45
2009 33.48
2010 30.17
2011 30.64
2012 27.50
2013 25.10
2014 30.27
2015 32.30
2016 32.85
2017 31.90
2018 30.62
2019 30.15

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