Papua New Guinea - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Papua New Guinea was 27.07 as of 2012. As the graph below shows, over the past 41 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 81.37 in 1971 and a minimum value of 10.00 in 2001.

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
1971 81.37
1972 61.49
1973 29.26
1974 24.73
1975 35.23
1976 33.48
1981 33.09
1982 29.95
1983 33.01
1984 48.83
1985 45.92
1986 42.99
1987 28.71
1998 32.34
2000 15.35
2001 10.00
2002 19.87
2003 19.29
2004 15.71
2011 28.64
2012 27.07

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