Bermuda: Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2025, Bermuda's food exports (% of merchandise exports) fell 0.7 percentage points on 2024 (from 1.78% to 1.08%).

Across the 27 yearly changes before that (1972 to 2024), the average change was −0.92 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 11.69 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 21.8 percentage points in 2014 and the biggest yearly fall was 28.45 percentage points in 2018. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2016 to 2025 the straight-line trend is downward, about 5.67 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 68% of the movement over 10 observed years.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

How it compares

In 2025, Bermuda had the 100th highest value of the 103 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.

Closest to Bermuda in the 2025 ranking

• Hong Kong SAR, China — 97th of 103: 1.34%
• Andorra — 98th of 103: 1.29%
• Japan — 99th of 103: 1.28%
• Kuwait — 101st of 103: 0.59%
• Angola — 102nd of 103: 0.54%
• Brunei Darussalam — 103rd of 103: 0.11%

What this measures

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.

Limitations: 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.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.

All 31 values

Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in nearby economies

• Canada — 13.64% (2025)
• United States — 8.98% (2025)

More private sector & trade data for Bermuda

• Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) — 96.63% (2023)
• Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports) — 1.32% (2023)
• Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in Latin America & the Caribbean (% of total merchandise imports) — 0.38% (2023)
• Merchandise imports by the reporting economy, residual (% of total merchandise imports) — 2.05% (2023)
• Merchandise imports by the reporting economy (current US$) — US$1.43 billion (2023)
• Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports) — 71.84% (2023)
• Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise exports)

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Questions people ask

What is Bermuda's food exports (% of merchandise exports)?

1.08% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1971?

It is down 4.55 percentage points from 5.63% in 1971. The highest value was 66.14% in 2016 and the lowest 0.36% in 1979.

How does Bermuda rank?

100th highest of 103 economies with data for 2025.

Is the latest change in food exports (% of merchandise exports) unusual for Bermuda?

In 2025, Bermuda's food exports (% of merchandise exports) fell 0.7 percentage points on 2024 (from 1.78% to 1.08%). Across the 27 yearly changes before that (1972 to 2024), the average change was −0.92 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 11.69 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator TX.VAL.FOOD.ZS.UN, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Comtrade database, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Statistics Division; World Integrated Trade Solution system (WITS); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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