Ireland - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Ireland was 8.13 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 63.09 in 1963 and a minimum value of 7.22 in 2002.

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
1963 63.09
1964 62.32
1965 59.11
1966 57.35
1967 57.99
1968 53.51
1969 50.61
1970 49.37
1971 47.38
1972 45.29
1973 43.63
1974 40.37
1975 47.20
1976 42.05
1977 40.12
1978 40.68
1979 37.33
1980 36.60
1981 33.28
1982 30.12
1983 27.93
1984 25.74
1985 25.28
1986 25.94
1987 27.29
1988 26.67
1989 24.13
1990 22.34
1991 22.67
1992 24.42
1993 21.91
1994 20.57
1995 19.39
1996 16.45
1997 11.87
1998 10.15
1999 9.44
2000 8.29
2001 7.25
2002 7.22
2003 8.34
2004 8.40
2005 8.44
2006 9.70
2007 10.14
2008 9.68
2009 8.76
2010 9.06
2011 9.78
2012 10.06
2013 11.18
2014 11.41
2015 10.00
2016 9.66
2017 10.47
2018 8.96
2019 8.87
2020 8.13

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