South Asia - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in South Asia was 11.78 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 39.21 in 1963 and a minimum value of 8.89 in 2009.

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 38.50
1963 39.21
1964 36.16
1965 33.29
1966 32.44
1967 33.48
1968 31.82
1969 28.03
1970 29.79
1971 30.80
1972 30.25
1973 32.76
1974 33.38
1975 37.65
1976 32.57
1977 31.23
1978 28.05
1979 29.75
1980 26.91
1981 29.05
1982 26.32
1983 24.05
1984 23.66
1985 24.81
1986 23.91
1987 19.76
1988 16.67
1989 16.55
1990 15.63
1991 16.38
1992 15.46
1993 16.00
1994 15.52
1995 17.42
1996 17.09
1997 16.34
1998 15.95
1999 14.67
2000 12.40
2001 12.71
2002 12.33
2003 10.91
2004 10.35
2005 9.40
2006 9.03
2007 9.67
2008 10.68
2009 8.89
2010 9.14
2011 9.82
2012 10.81
2013 11.58
2014 12.53
2015 11.67
2016 12.38
2017 12.91
2018 11.51
2019 11.88
2020 13.74
2021 11.78

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