Moldova's food exports (% of merchandise exports) was 58.52% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 4.15 percentage points from 62.67% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 58.52% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 52.98% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 62.67% | 2015 |
| Highest | 77.47% | 1996 |
| Lowest | 52.98% | 2020 |
| Average since 2016 | 58.35% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 66.82% | 1994 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Moldova's food exports (% of merchandise exports) rose 2.41 percentage points on 2024 (from 56.11% to 58.52%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.36 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 6.86 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.4 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 18.31 percentage points in 2005 and the biggest yearly fall was 11.61 percentage points in 2012. 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 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 22% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2025, Moldova had the 9th 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.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Moldova | 58.52% | 2025 |
| World | 9.01% | 2025 |
| Europe & Central Asia | 10.61% | 2025 |
| Upper middle income | 9.01% | 2025 |
Closest to Moldova in the 2025 ranking
- Paraguay — 5th of 103: 69.1%
- New Zealand — 6th of 103: 68.84%
- Ecuador — 7th of 103: 58.74%
- Fiji — 9th of 103: 55.36%
- Côte d'Ivoire — 10th of 103: 54.99%
- Mauritius — 11th of 103: 52.32%
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 32 values
| Year | Food exports (% of merchandise exports) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 58.52 |
| 2024 | 56.11 |
| 2023 | 57.37 |
| 2022 | 60.55 |
| 2021 | 55.59 |
| 2020 | 52.98 |
| 2019 | 56.1 |
| 2018 | 57.5 |
| 2017 | 63.84 |
| 2016 | 64.89 |
| 2015 |
Food exports (% of merchandise exports) in nearby economies
More private sector & trade data for Moldova
- Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 72.25% (2025)
- Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$10.92 billion (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$3.78 billion (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports (% of merchandise imports) — 1.45% (2025)
- Food imports (% of merchandise imports) — 14.85% (2025)
- Fuel imports (% of merchandise imports) — 22.41% (2025)
- Insurance and financial services (% of commercial service imports) — 1.93% (2025)
- Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) — 59.71% (2025)
- Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports) — 0.71% (2025)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Moldova's food exports (% of merchandise exports)?
- 58.52% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1994?
- It is down 8.3 percentage points from 66.82% in 1994. The highest value was 77.47% in 1996 and the lowest 52.98% in 2020.
- How does Moldova rank?
- 9th highest of 103 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in food exports (% of merchandise exports) unusual for Moldova?
- In 2025, Moldova's food exports (% of merchandise exports) rose 2.41 percentage points on 2024 (from 56.11% to 58.52%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.36 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 6.86 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.4 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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