economic2023
Food exports share of merchandise exports
Compare food exports share of merchandise exports across 160 ISO-mapped countries or territories using one fixed 2023 official-source dataset.
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Key Insights
Global Average
24.1% of merchandise exports
Median: 15.1% of merchandise exports
Countries Covered
160
with available data
Highest
Sao Tome and Principe
98.2% of merchandise exports
Lowest
Qatar
0.1% of merchandise exports
Top 5 Countries
1Sao Tome and Principe98.2% of merchandise exports
2Maldives96.5% of merchandise exports
3Belize95.0% of merchandise exports
4Malawi89.2% of merchandise exports
5Comoros88.5% of merchandise exports
By Region
Key Findings
- •Coverage: 160 ISO-mapped countries or territories in 2023.
- •Published range: 0.0798738697571159 to 98.21041550523 % of merchandise exports.
- •Discovery motivation: Google Trends food and shopping topics.
Country Rankings
Top 10 Countries
Bottom 10 Countries
Data Analysis
Value Distribution
How countries are distributed across the value range
Low (0.1% of merchandise exports)High (98.2% of merchandise exports)
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 24.1% of merchandise exports)
About This Statistic
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.
MapTheory retains one fixed reference year and unit. Only finite values mapped to ISO 3166-1 numeric codes are included; aggregates, missing values and non-ISO geographies are excluded. No value is estimated, imputed or carried across years.
Methodology
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.
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sao Tome and Principe | 98.2% of merchandise exports |
| 2 | Maldives | 96.5% of merchandise exports |
| 3 | Belize | 95.0% of merchandise exports |
| 4 | Malawi | 89.2% of merchandise exports |
| 5 | Comoros | 88.5% of merchandise exports |
| 6 | Seychelles | 87.7% of merchandise exports |
| 7 | Cape Verde | 87.5% of merchandise exports |
| 8 | Ethiopia | 80.4% of merchandise exports |
| 9 | Antigua and Barbuda | 79.5% of merchandise exports |
| 10 | Republic of The Gambia | 75.3% of merchandise exports |
| 11 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 72.5% of merchandise exports |
| 12 | Paraguay | 70.6% of merchandise exports |
| 13 | Fiji | 68.5% of merchandise exports |
| 14 | Aruba | 67.3% of merchandise exports |
| 15 | Uruguay | 66.2% of merchandise exports |
| 16 | New Zealand | 65.8% of merchandise exports |
| 17 | Grenada | 61.7% of merchandise exports |
| 18 | Ukraine | 60.3% of merchandise exports |
| 19 | Moldova, Republic of | 57.4% of merchandise exports |
| 20 | Honduras | 56.9% of merchandise exports |
| 21 | Argentina | 52.7% of merchandise exports |
| 22 | Ecuador | 50.7% of merchandise exports |
| 23 | Mauritius | 49.3% of merchandise exports |
| 24 | Kenya | 49.0% of merchandise exports |
| 25 | Guatemala | 48.6% of merchandise exports |
| 26 | Barbados | 46.1% of merchandise exports |
| 27 | Burundi | 46.0% of merchandise exports |
| 28 | Iceland | 44.6% of merchandise exports |
| 29 | Cote d'Ivoire | 44.3% of merchandise exports |
| 30 | Nicaragua | 43.8% of merchandise exports |
| 31 | Brazil | 42.1% of merchandise exports |
| 32 | Bahamas | 42.0% of merchandise exports |
| 33 | Djibouti | 41.5% of merchandise exports |
| 34 | Dominica | 41.2% of merchandise exports |
| 35 | Samoa | 40.7% of merchandise exports |
| 36 | Georgia | 40.3% of merchandise exports |
| 37 | Uganda | 39.3% of merchandise exports |
| 38 | Benin | 37.4% of merchandise exports |
| 39 | United Republic of Tanzania | 33.1% of merchandise exports |
| 40 | Costa Rica | 32.8% of merchandise exports |
| 41 | Togo | 32.0% of merchandise exports |
| 42 | Tonga | 30.9% of merchandise exports |
| 43 | Jamaica | 30.4% of merchandise exports |
| 44 | Eswatini | 29.7% of merchandise exports |
| 45 | Namibia | 29.1% of merchandise exports |
| 46 | Macao | 28.7% of merchandise exports |
| 47 | Myanmar | 28.4% of merchandise exports |
| 48 | Madagascar | 27.5% of merchandise exports |
| 49 | Senegal | 26.6% of merchandise exports |
| 50 | Sri Lanka | 25.7% of merchandise exports |
| 51 | Liberia | 24.5% of merchandise exports |
| 52 | Bolivia | 23.8% of merchandise exports |
| 53 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 23.2% of merchandise exports |
| 54 | Dominican Republic | 23.1% of merchandise exports |
| 55 | Cameroon | 22.8% of merchandise exports |
| 56 | Chile | 22.2% of merchandise exports |
| 57 | Latvia | 22.1% of merchandise exports |
| 58 | Pakistan | 21.9% of merchandise exports |
| 59 | El Salvador | 21.6% of merchandise exports |
| 60 | Cyprus | 21.4% of merchandise exports |
| 61 | State of Palestine | 21.4% of merchandise exports |
| 62 | Zimbabwe | 20.3% of merchandise exports |
| 63 | Greece | 20.2% of merchandise exports |
| 64 | Mauritania | 20.1% of merchandise exports |
| 65 | Peru | 19.9% of merchandise exports |
| 66 | Egypt | 19.9% of merchandise exports |
| 67 | Papua New Guinea | 19.7% of merchandise exports |
| 68 | Indonesia | 19.6% of merchandise exports |
| 69 | Bermuda | 19.1% of merchandise exports |
| 70 | Morocco | 18.9% of merchandise exports |
| 71 | Lithuania | 18.6% of merchandise exports |
| 72 | Ghana | 18.1% of merchandise exports |
| 73 | Denmark | 18.0% of merchandise exports |
| 74 | Bulgaria | 17.4% of merchandise exports |
| 75 | Panama | 17.4% of merchandise exports |
| 76 | Spain | 17.3% of merchandise exports |
| 77 | Lebanon | 16.4% of merchandise exports |
| 78 | Croatia | 16.0% of merchandise exports |
| 79 | Colombia | 15.7% of merchandise exports |
| 80 | Thailand | 15.1% of merchandise exports |
| 81 | Netherlands | 15.0% of merchandise exports |
| 82 | Poland | 14.4% of merchandise exports |
| 83 | Lesotho | 14.0% of merchandise exports |
| 84 | Montenegro | 13.7% of merchandise exports |
| 85 | Portugal | 13.5% of merchandise exports |
| 86 | Jordan | 13.4% of merchandise exports |
| 87 | Armenia | 13.1% of merchandise exports |
| 88 | France | 13.1% of merchandise exports |
| 89 | Romania | 13.0% of merchandise exports |
| 90 | Tunisia | 12.9% of merchandise exports |
| 91 | Canada | 12.8% of merchandise exports |
| 92 | Bhutan | 12.2% of merchandise exports |
| 93 | Albania | 12.0% of merchandise exports |
| 94 | Türkiye | 12.0% of merchandise exports |
| 95 | Belgium | 11.9% of merchandise exports |
| 96 | South Africa | 11.7% of merchandise exports |
| 97 | Estonia | 11.7% of merchandise exports |
| 98 | Australia | 11.6% of merchandise exports |
| 99 | Kyrgyzstan | 11.5% of merchandise exports |
| 100 | India | 11.0% of merchandise exports |
| 101 | Luxembourg | 11.0% of merchandise exports |
| 102 | Mozambique | 10.8% of merchandise exports |
| 103 | Zambia | 10.6% of merchandise exports |
| 104 | Timor-Leste | 10.5% of merchandise exports |
| 105 | French Polynesia | 10.2% of merchandise exports |
| 106 | Italy | 10.1% of merchandise exports |
| 107 | Malta | 10.1% of merchandise exports |
| 108 | Norway | 9.7% of merchandise exports |
| 109 | United States of America | 9.5% of merchandise exports |
| 110 | Malaysia | 9.5% of merchandise exports |
| 111 | Vietnam | 9.4% of merchandise exports |
| 112 | The Republic of North Macedonia | 9.0% of merchandise exports |
| 113 | Uzbekistan | 8.7% of merchandise exports |
| 114 | Burkina Faso | 8.5% of merchandise exports |
| 115 | Ireland | 8.5% of merchandise exports |
| 116 | Philippines | 8.4% of merchandise exports |
| 117 | Mexico | 8.4% of merchandise exports |
| 118 | Bahrain | 8.3% of merchandise exports |
| 119 | Hungary | 8.3% of merchandise exports |
| 120 | Austria | 8.0% of merchandise exports |
| 121 | Cayman Islands | 7.8% of merchandise exports |
| 122 | Cambodia | 7.8% of merchandise exports |
| 123 | Niger | 7.5% of merchandise exports |
| 124 | Trinidad and Tobago | 7.2% of merchandise exports |
| 125 | Sweden | 6.8% of merchandise exports |
| 126 | Kazakhstan | 6.7% of merchandise exports |
| 127 | United Kingdom | 6.5% of merchandise exports |
| 128 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 6.2% of merchandise exports |
| 129 | Mali | 6.2% of merchandise exports |
| 130 | Germany | 6.0% of merchandise exports |
| 131 | Czech Republic | 5.3% of merchandise exports |
| 132 | Tajikistan | 5.2% of merchandise exports |
| 133 | Guyana | 4.9% of merchandise exports |
| 134 | Slovakia | 4.5% of merchandise exports |
| 135 | Israel | 4.1% of merchandise exports |
| 136 | Slovenia | 3.8% of merchandise exports |
| 137 | Nigeria | 3.8% of merchandise exports |
| 138 | Oman | 3.7% of merchandise exports |
| 139 | Suriname | 3.5% of merchandise exports |
| 140 | Mongolia | 3.3% of merchandise exports |
| 141 | United Arab Emirates | 2.9% of merchandise exports |
| 142 | Singapore | 2.9% of merchandise exports |
| 143 | Azerbaijan | 2.8% of merchandise exports |
| 144 | Finland | 2.8% of merchandise exports |
| 145 | Switzerland | 2.6% of merchandise exports |
| 146 | People's Republic of China | 2.5% of merchandise exports |
| 147 | Botswana | 1.9% of merchandise exports |
| 148 | South Korea | 1.6% of merchandise exports |
| 149 | Saudi Arabia | 1.6% of merchandise exports |
| 150 | Hong Kong | 1.5% of merchandise exports |
| 151 | Central African Republic | 1.4% of merchandise exports |
| 152 | Japan | 1.2% of merchandise exports |
| 153 | Andorra | 1.1% of merchandise exports |
| 154 | Gabon | 0.9% of merchandise exports |
| 155 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 0.6% of merchandise exports |
| 156 | Kuwait | 0.5% of merchandise exports |
| 157 | Angola | 0.5% of merchandise exports |
| 158 | Republic of the Congo | 0.2% of merchandise exports |
| 159 | Brunei Darussalam | 0.2% of merchandise exports |
| 160 | Qatar | 0.1% of merchandise exports |
Showing 160 of 160 countries
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Data Source
This data comes from World Development Indicators (2023).
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