Latvia - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in Latvia was 17.91 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 27 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 21.71 in 2020 and a minimum value of 5.66 in 2000.

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
1994 12.49
1995 14.41
1996 15.38
1997 13.90
1998 10.12
1999 6.19
2000 5.66
2001 8.69
2002 10.11
2003 8.84
2004 9.17
2005 11.28
2006 12.32
2007 13.35
2008 15.73
2009 17.35
2010 16.82
2011 15.18
2012 19.21
2013 18.95
2014 18.48
2015 17.78
2016 18.52
2017 19.96
2018 18.17
2019 20.82
2020 21.71
2021 17.91

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