Cape Verde vs Lower middle income: Food exports
Food exports over time
- Cape Verde
- Lower middle income
How they compare
Cape Verde currently reports 86.4% against 14.8% in Lower middle income, a difference of 71.6%.
That makes Cape Verde's figure about 5.8 times Lower middle income's.
The two have swapped places 4 times across 31 shared years of data; in 1978 it was Cape Verde ahead.
Cape Verde ranks 14th and Lower middle income ranks 13th of 196 countries.
Cape Verde has averaged higher in every one of the 6 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Cape Verde | Lower middle income | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 68.7% | 25.8% | 42.9% | Cape Verde |
| 1980s | 84.0% | 22.8% | 61.2% | Cape Verde |
| 1990s | 18.2% | 17.4% | 0.8% | Cape Verde |
| 2000s | 28.5% | 13.1% | 15.3% | Cape Verde |
| 2010s | 83.6% | 13.0% | 70.6% | Cape Verde |
| 2020s | 87.1% | 14.3% | 72.7% | Cape Verde |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher food exports, Cape Verde or Lower middle income?
- Cape Verde, at 86.4% against 14.8% in Lower middle income as of 2024.
- What is the difference in food exports between Cape Verde and Lower middle income?
- 71.6%, with Cape Verde ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Cape Verde and Lower middle income?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1978 to 2024.
- How do Cape Verde and Lower middle income rank globally for food exports?
- Cape Verde ranks 14th and Lower middle income ranks 13th of 196 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Comtrade database, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Statistics Division, published as Food exports (% of merchandise exports). Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
Individual pages
About this data
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.