The Bahamas - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in The Bahamas was 16.10 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 44 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 69.56 in 1997 and a minimum value of 0.68 in 1980.

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
1974 1.83
1975 1.61
1976 1.91
1980 0.68
1981 1.43
1982 2.20
1983 1.39
1984 2.47
1985 4.37
1986 5.24
1987 6.03
1997 69.56
1998 60.99
1999 61.40
2000 49.43
2001 52.67
2002 57.41
2003 55.66
2004 50.24
2005 35.13
2006 34.31
2007 28.43
2008 30.88
2009 20.14
2010 25.15
2011 23.51
2012 24.37
2013 25.17
2014 20.12
2015 28.30
2016 18.69
2017 18.23
2018 16.10

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