The Gambia - Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in The Gambia was 88.32 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 56 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 99.83 in 1964 and a minimum value of 44.07 in 2019.

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
1964 99.83
1970 99.79
1971 99.66
1972 99.51
1973 99.53
1974 99.46
1975 99.74
1976 99.16
1977 99.08
1978 97.85
1979 97.71
1980 98.93
1995 59.70
1996 63.89
1997 68.07
1998 90.04
1999 84.50
2000 87.50
2001 92.21
2002 97.86
2003 85.95
2004 96.19
2005 96.73
2006 94.14
2007 93.85
2008 75.17
2009 81.29
2010 88.98
2011 83.22
2012 54.09
2013 91.91
2014 49.44
2015 82.47
2016 86.86
2017 73.39
2018 86.24
2019 44.07
2020 88.32

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