Middle income - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Middle income was 10.31 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 36 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 20.42 in 1984 and a minimum value of 7.52 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.

See also:

Year Value
1984 20.42
1985 18.74
1986 19.60
1987 19.05
1992 14.23
1993 13.88
1994 13.90
1995 13.07
1996 12.25
1997 12.04
1998 11.69
1999 10.73
2000 9.12
2001 9.60
2002 9.36
2003 9.16
2004 8.44
2005 8.09
2006 7.52
2007 7.79
2008 8.08
2009 9.03
2010 8.46
2011 8.49
2012 8.61
2013 8.70
2014 9.07
2015 9.60
2016 10.04
2017 9.89
2018 9.35
2019 9.58
2020 10.31

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