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Lesotho: Food exports

23.30percent · 2024+156.4% since 2014

Food comprises the commodities in SITC (Rev. 3) sections 0 (food and live animals), 1 (beverages and tobacco), and 4 (animal and vegetable oils and fats) and division 22 (oil seeds, oil nuts, and oil kernels). This indicator is expressed as a percentage of merchandise exports which is comprised of goods whose economic ownership is changed between a resident and a non-resident and that are not included in the following specific categories: goods under merchanting, non-monetary gold, and parts of travel, construction, and government goods and services n.i.e. Annual figures for Lesotho from 2000 to 2024.

20002024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202423.305
202313.994
202213.915
202111.54
20209.993
20198.465
201810.045
201712.501
201612.032
20159.627
20149.088
201325.588
201213.575
201112.96
201016.411
20098.572
20089.638
200711.206
20044.67
20038.612
20027.155
200114.339
20002.157

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by United Nations, World Integrated Trade Solution, World Bank. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Food exports. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-food-exports (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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