New Zealand - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in New Zealand was 65.50 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 67.41 in 2020 and a minimum value of 43.88 in 1995.

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
1964 52.44
1965 56.61
1966 52.84
1967 63.50
1968 58.89
1969 58.07
1970 59.10
1971 60.97
1972 56.94
1973 53.98
1974 52.79
1975 53.92
1976 49.40
1977 47.64
1978 47.13
1979 46.78
1980 47.90
1981 51.15
1982 53.86
1983 51.71
1984 48.02
1985 48.30
1986 48.16
1987 47.27
1988 44.61
1989 45.61
1990 46.96
1991 47.64
1992 48.94
1993 47.13
1994 44.30
1995 43.88
1996 46.16
1997 46.23
1998 46.23
1999 45.54
2000 45.49
2001 49.06
2002 48.44
2003 49.04
2004 50.45
2005 51.79
2006 51.49
2007 51.99
2008 51.99
2009 54.81
2010 55.02
2011 55.45
2012 55.82
2013 58.08
2014 60.47
2015 60.06
2016 60.69
2017 62.19
2018 61.88
2019 65.03
2020 67.41
2021 65.50

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