Lower middle income - Food exports

Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Lower middle income was 15.94 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 53 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 33.43 in 1967 and a minimum value of 11.87 in 2006.

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
1967 33.43
1968 32.90
1969 29.07
1970 29.80
1971 30.36
1972 28.84
1973 26.32
1974 24.76
1975 26.62
1976 25.15
1977 25.32
1978 25.16
1979 24.36
1981 21.67
1983 19.94
1996 16.43
1997 17.12
1998 17.34
1999 16.10
2000 13.91
2001 14.33
2002 14.01
2003 13.47
2004 13.68
2005 12.92
2006 11.87
2007 12.69
2008 13.73
2009 14.14
2010 12.99
2011 13.02
2012 14.06
2013 13.19
2014 14.35
2015 14.89
2016 15.41
2017 15.13
2018 14.38
2019 14.95
2020 15.94

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports