Vietnam - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Vietnam was 8.78 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 23 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 30.75 in 1998 and a minimum value of 8.78 in 2020.

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.

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Year Value
1997 30.22
1998 30.75
1999 28.35
2000 25.31
2001 26.77
2002 25.40
2003 22.89
2004 20.69
2005 20.24
2006 19.29
2007 19.51
2008 19.92
2009 20.71
2010 19.25
2011 18.58
2012 17.04
2013 14.44
2014 14.82
2015 12.96
2016 12.87
2017 12.11
2018 10.63
2019 9.42
2020 8.78

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