Food exports

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.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
198
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

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  1. Produced by

    United Nations

    Comtrade database, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Statistics Division

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

    World Integrated Trade Solution

    World Integrated Trade Solution system (WITS)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

    World Bank

    Staff estimates, World Bank (WB)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Australia202513.74percent
Azerbaijan20255.22percent
Belize202595.34percent
Bhutan20255.89percent
Bosnia and Herzegovina20257.43percent
Brazil202540.73percent
Chile202522.69percent
Denmark202517.10percent
Guyana20251.50percent
Hungary20258.65percent

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Food exports · World Bank · Interva