Lebanon - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Lebanon was 19.62 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 53 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 50.41 in 2017 and a minimum value of 12.00 in 2010.

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
1967 43.44
1968 38.48
1969 31.59
1970 29.99
1971 27.27
1972 24.03
1973 21.13
1977 18.27
1997 19.54
1998 20.89
1999 19.89
2000 18.40
2001 18.00
2002 16.30
2003 15.02
2004 14.32
2005 15.19
2006 12.60
2007 13.10
2008 12.68
2009 12.41
2010 12.00
2011 13.37
2012 13.66
2013 18.35
2014 23.31
2015 24.55
2016 22.87
2017 50.41
2018 21.57
2019 16.66
2020 19.62

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