São Tomé and Principe - Food exports

Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in São Tomé and Principe was 88.78 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 21 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 98.60 in 1999 and a minimum value of 74.27 in 2018.

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
1999 98.60
2000 96.92
2001 97.99
2002 96.63
2003 94.92
2004 94.32
2005 94.87
2006 94.53
2007 95.01
2008 92.49
2009 92.45
2010 94.62
2011 95.96
2012 87.25
2013 85.28
2014 97.01
2015 93.26
2016 88.45
2017 85.40
2018 74.27
2019 87.76
2020 88.78

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports