United States - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in United States was 11.15 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 23.60 in 1973 and a minimum value of 7.19 in 2006.

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 20.68
1963 21.37
1964 21.39
1965 21.08
1966 21.27
1967 18.87
1968 16.89
1969 15.02
1970 16.00
1971 16.28
1972 17.82
1973 23.60
1974 21.08
1975 19.67
1976 19.21
1977 18.71
1978 19.96
1979 18.87
1980 18.25
1981 18.48
1982 17.11
1983 17.82
1984 16.81
1985 13.49
1986 12.60
1987 11.66
1989 11.72
1990 11.08
1991 10.43
1992 10.87
1993 10.45
1994 10.14
1995 10.53
1996 10.68
1997 9.02
1998 8.34
1999 7.88
2000 7.31
2001 7.91
2002 8.18
2003 8.66
2004 7.96
2005 7.47
2006 7.19
2007 8.13
2008 9.37
2009 10.11
2010 9.69
2011 9.78
2012 9.92
2013 10.01
2014 10.30
2015 9.97
2016 10.60
2017 10.10
2018 9.40
2019 9.33
2020 11.49
2021 11.15

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