Haiti: Food exports (% of merchandise exports)

Key figures

Since 1970 it is down 28.38 percentage points from 51.71% in 1970. The World Bank has no value for 22 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

What the numbers say

In 2017, Haiti's food exports (% of merchandise exports) rose 6.88 percentage points on 2016 (from 16.44% to 23.33%).

Across the 21 yearly changes before that (1971 to 2016), the average change was −0.84 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 7.37 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.0 standard deviations above that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 13.05 percentage points in 1995 and the biggest yearly fall was 15.13 percentage points in 1996. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

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

How it compares

See how every economy compares in the full ranking.

Closest to Haiti in the 2017 ranking

• St. Kitts and Nevis — 2nd of 2: 13.48%

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 26 values

Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in nearby economies

• Antigua and Barbuda — 84.7% (2024)
• Argentina — 50.15% (2025)
• Aruba — 67.32% (2023)
• Bahamas, The — 52.2% (2024)
• Barbados — 43.74% (2025)
• Belize — 95.34% (2025)
• Bolivia — 20.48% (2025)
• Brazil — 40.73% (2025)
• Chile — 21.88% (2025)
• Colombia — 25.37% (2025)
• Costa Rica

More private sector & trade data for Haiti

• Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 16.15% (2025)
• Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$4.63 billion (2025)
• Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$554 million (2025)
• Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) — 42.26% (2023)
• Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in Latin America & the Caribbean (% of total merchandise imports) — 14.11% (2023)
• Merchandise imports by the reporting economy, residual (% of total merchandise imports) — 2.13% (2023)
• Merchandise imports by the reporting economy (current US$) — US$2.14 billion (2023)
• Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies within region (% of total merchandise imports)

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Questions people ask

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

23.33% in 2017, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1970?

It is down 28.38 percentage points from 51.71% in 1970. The highest value was 53.74% in 1971 and the lowest 11.62% in 2013.

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

In 2017, Haiti's food exports (% of merchandise exports) rose 6.88 percentage points on 2016 (from 16.44% to 23.33%). Across the 21 yearly changes before that (1971 to 2016), the average change was −0.84 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 7.37 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.0 standard deviations above that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.

Where does this data come from?

The World Bank's World Development Indicators, 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).

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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