Korea - Food exports

Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Korea was 1.63 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 39.18 in 1962 and a minimum value of 0.90 in 2007.

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
1962 39.18
1963 19.47
1964 22.45
1965 16.66
1966 19.05
1967 14.09
1968 11.69
1969 10.57
1970 9.63
1971 8.04
1972 7.51
1973 8.37
1974 7.83
1975 13.23
1976 7.64
1977 10.59
1978 8.42
1979 8.21
1980 7.39
1981 6.87
1982 5.57
1983 4.99
1984 4.36
1985 4.11
1986 4.81
1987 4.61
1988 4.15
1989 3.73
1990 3.33
1991 3.17
1992 2.87
1993 2.60
1994 2.50
1995 2.26
1996 2.28
1997 2.14
1998 1.99
1999 1.96
2000 1.53
2001 1.65
2002 1.53
2003 1.36
2004 1.17
2005 1.06
2006 0.92
2007 0.90
2008 0.92
2009 1.13
2010 1.07
2011 1.11
2012 1.17
2013 1.11
2014 1.14
2015 1.22
2016 1.40
2017 1.30
2018 1.26
2019 1.46
2020 1.63

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports