IDA only - Food exports

Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in IDA only was 31.39 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 41 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 42.60 in 1978 and a minimum value of 20.72 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.

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Year Value
1978 42.60
1997 35.47
1998 36.94
2000 28.90
2001 27.96
2002 28.00
2003 28.25
2004 28.14
2005 26.39
2006 25.94
2007 24.93
2008 20.95
2009 25.27
2010 23.50
2011 24.16
2012 22.74
2013 20.72
2015 26.95
2016 33.38
2017 33.04
2018 32.23
2019 31.39

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports