Portugal - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Portugal was 12.80 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 29.05 in 1962 and a minimum value of 6.38 in 2004.

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
1962 29.05
1963 26.51
1964 23.99
1965 25.56
1966 24.77
1967 24.75
1968 24.14
1969 21.32
1970 20.02
1971 18.66
1972 18.60
1973 18.03
1974 15.40
1975 16.08
1976 16.47
1977 15.64
1978 15.10
1979 13.68
1980 11.90
1981 11.26
1982 11.14
1983 11.30
1984 10.99
1985 9.42
1986 8.88
1987 8.05
1988 8.10
1989 7.50
1990 7.14
1991 7.82
1992 7.47
1993 7.11
1994 7.09
1995 7.19
1996 7.32
1997 7.24
1998 7.08
1999 6.89
2000 6.84
2001 7.10
2002 7.66
2003 7.57
2004 6.38
2005 8.33
2006 8.43
2007 9.20
2008 10.42
2009 12.23
2010 11.32
2011 11.07
2012 11.18
2013 11.49
2014 12.18
2015 12.22
2016 12.38
2017 12.15
2018 11.93
2019 11.79
2020 13.43
2021 12.80

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