Dominican Republic - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Dominican Republic was 22.30 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 49 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 87.83 in 1971 and a minimum value of 10.53 in 1996.

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
1971 87.83
1972 76.03
1973 73.27
1974 79.04
1975 82.43
1976 74.35
1977 79.01
1978 74.44
1979 70.82
1980 73.16
1981 79.17
1982 82.16
1983 75.31
1985 58.56
1986 57.65
1987 46.90
1996 10.53
1997 10.80
2001 40.81
2002 14.12
2003 12.94
2004 12.12
2005 12.07
2006 14.48
2007 14.56
2008 17.28
2009 23.86
2010 27.52
2011 24.51
2012 23.13
2013 22.00
2014 22.30
2015 23.76
2016 23.16
2017 22.90
2018 23.22
2019 22.79
2020 22.30

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