Kiribati - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Kiribati was 84.12 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 47 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 99.88 in 1980 and a minimum value of 3.43 in 1975.

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
1973 10.73
1974 20.52
1975 3.43
1976 5.27
1977 13.40
1978 11.56
1979 15.21
1980 99.88
1983 99.73
1984 99.84
1985 99.65
1986 98.35
1987 95.01
1989 96.58
1990 67.09
1991 76.70
1992 90.14
1993 94.12
1994 92.63
1995 97.83
1996 93.59
1997 93.22
1998 84.16
1999 99.40
2005 82.39
2007 78.95
2008 79.86
2009 69.66
2010 66.95
2011 80.62
2012 87.67
2013 57.93
2014 74.42
2015 72.56
2016 74.42
2017 80.33
2018 80.49
2020 84.12

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