Tunisia - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Tunisia was 10.65 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 63.70 in 1963 and a minimum value of 6.78 in 2002.

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 63.51
1963 63.70
1964 61.66
1965 44.51
1966 48.42
1967 35.43
1968 33.15
1969 31.96
1970 29.90
1971 35.43
1972 43.27
1973 32.79
1974 24.77
1975 19.21
1976 19.91
1977 15.17
1978 15.73
1979 12.77
1980 7.17
1981 9.21
1982 8.75
1983 7.24
1984 10.23
1985 9.70
1986 12.22
1987 12.67
1990 10.99
1991 14.96
1992 10.13
1993 11.28
1994 12.79
1995 9.77
1996 7.35
1997 10.99
1998 9.46
1999 11.23
2000 8.71
2001 7.89
2002 6.78
2003 6.93
2004 11.07
2005 10.37
2006 11.83
2007 9.52
2008 8.88
2009 9.24
2010 7.73
2011 10.09
2012 9.34
2013 9.71
2014 7.85
2015 14.23
2016 10.32
2017 10.57
2018 13.07
2019 10.65

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