Serbia - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Serbia was 18.61 as of 2007. As the graph below shows, over the past 15 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 28.18 in 1996 and a minimum value of 14.06 in 1998.

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
1992 18.94
1996 28.18
1997 16.03
1998 14.06
1999 21.62
2000 16.97
2001 16.42
2002 23.14
2004 20.62
2005 19.75
2006 19.04
2007 18.61

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