Singapore's agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports) was 0.34% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 0.09 percentage points from 0.43% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 0.34% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 0.43% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 0.43% | 2015 |
| Highest | 34.38% | 1962 |
| Lowest | 0.23% | 2009 |
| Average since 2016 | 0.44% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 34.38% | 1962 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Singapore's agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports) fell 0.02 percentage points on 2024 (from 0.36% to 0.34%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.03 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.07 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 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 7.27 percentage points in 1969 and the biggest yearly fall was 7.35 percentage points in 1971. 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 0.03 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 84% 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, Singapore had the 82nd 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Singapore | 0.34% | 2025 |
| World | 1.14% | 2025 |
| East Asia & Pacific | 0.77% | 2025 |
| High income | 1.16% | 2025 |
Closest to Singapore in the 2025 ranking
What this measures
Agricultural raw materials comprise section 2 of SITC Rev. 3 (crude materials, inedible, except fuels) excluding divisions 22 (oil-seeds and oleaginous fruits), 27 (crude fertilizers and minerals excluding coal, petroleum, and precious stones), and 28 (metalliferous ores and scrap). 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 63 values
| Year | Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.3353 |
| 2024 | 0.3569 |
| 2023 | 0.3769 |
| 2022 | 0.3731 |
| 2021 | 0.3561 |
| 2020 | 0.4343 |
| 2019 | 0.5047 |
| 2018 | 0.5811 |
| 2017 | 0.5667 |
| 2016 | 0.5418 |
| 2015 |
Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports) in nearby economies
- Australia — 1.69% (2025)
- Brunei Darussalam — 0.00578% (2025)
- Cambodia — 2.62% (2024)
- China — 0.34% (2025)
- Fiji — 6.2% (2025)
- French Polynesia — 0.46% (2025)
- Hong Kong SAR, China — 0.02% (2025)
- Indonesia — 3.68% (2025)
- Japan
More private sector & trade data for Singapore
- Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 177.64% (2025)
- Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$505.84 billion (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$566.87 billion (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports (% of merchandise imports) — 0.19% (2025)
- Food imports (% of merchandise imports) — 3.54% (2025)
- Fuel imports (% of merchandise imports) — 15.46% (2025)
- Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) — 74.49% (2025)
- Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports) — 1.44% (2025)
- Food exports (% of merchandise exports) — 2.26% (2025)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Singapore's agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)?
- 0.34% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1962?
- It is down 34.04 percentage points from 34.38% in 1962. The highest value was 34.38% in 1962 and the lowest 0.23% in 2009.
- How does Singapore rank?
- 82nd highest of 103 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports) unusual for Singapore?
- In 2025, Singapore's agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports) fell 0.02 percentage points on 2024 (from 0.36% to 0.34%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.03 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.07 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 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.AGRI.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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