Jordan - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Jordan was 14.84 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 56 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 82.48 in 2005 and a minimum value of 10.03 in 1989.

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
1964 56.29
1965 56.82
1966 45.07
1967 50.78
1968 52.41
1969 54.20
1970 57.42
1971 50.26
1972 43.98
1973 40.30
1974 27.67
1975 28.95
1976 36.93
1977 36.94
1978 29.25
1979 31.03
1980 24.95
1981 23.85
1982 24.44
1983 25.82
1984 18.06
1985 17.89
1986 19.87
1987 14.81
1989 10.03
1990 10.59
1991 15.99
1992 15.59
1993 21.04
1994 19.90
1995 25.07
1997 28.96
1998 16.50
1999 16.70
2000 15.71
2001 14.87
2002 15.39
2003 14.52
2004 15.36
2005 82.48
2006 14.66
2007 15.36
2008 13.68
2009 16.24
2010 16.23
2011 16.60
2012 18.16
2013 20.30
2014 20.45
2015 20.92
2016 18.58
2017 17.76
2018 15.24
2019 14.64
2020 14.84

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