Pakistan - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Pakistan was 17.41 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 32.12 in 1974 and a minimum value of 8.04 in 1968.

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 14.20
1963 11.86
1964 10.38
1965 9.34
1966 12.36
1967 9.49
1968 8.04
1969 9.27
1970 10.63
1971 13.29
1972 15.11
1973 25.33
1974 32.12
1975 24.73
1976 31.93
1977 29.89
1978 26.28
1979 29.98
1980 23.53
1981 26.75
1982 20.27
1983 21.38
1984 22.39
1985 17.31
1986 15.64
1987 13.69
1990 9.32
1991 10.37
1992 9.90
1993 9.48
1995 11.80
1996 9.00
1997 10.11
1998 13.55
1999 13.07
2000 10.56
2001 10.92
2002 10.81
2003 10.82
2004 10.42
2005 12.09
2006 11.89
2007 12.28
2008 18.20
2009 16.67
2010 16.80
2011 19.49
2012 17.11
2013 19.96
2014 19.05
2015 19.92
2016 18.60
2017 18.66
2018 20.84
2019 20.67
2020 19.27
2021 17.41

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