Commodity Export Dependence

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: commodity-dependence-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Commodity exports (% of merchandise exports)is built fromAgricultural commodities (% of merchandise exports)Energy commodities (% of merchandise exports)Minerals, ores and metals (% of merchandise exports)

Every column in the newest file of Commodity Export Dependence: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2024	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	191	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	191	0
Commodity exports (% of merchandise exports)commodity_dependenceHeadline	The headline figure: Commodity exports (% of merchandise exports, three-year average).	Number · up to 15 decimals	4.605Bangladesh99.771Chadmiddle 67.170	191	0
Agricultural commodities (% of merchandise exports)agriculture_sharePart of the headline	Agricultural commodities — food, farm raw materials and the like — as a share of merchandise exports, averaged over the same three years; published to two decimals.	Number · up to 2 decimals	0.11Qatar97.76Micronesiamiddle 18.63	185	0
Energy commodities (% of merchandise exports)energy_sharePart of the headline	Energy commodities — oil, gas, coal and the like — as a share of merchandise exports, averaged over the same three years; published to two decimals.	Number · up to 2 decimals	0.004 share it96.50Iraqmiddle 7.36	177	0
Minerals, ores and metals (% of merchandise exports)mining_sharePart of the headline	Minerals, ores and metals as a share of merchandise exports, averaged over the same three years; published to two decimals.	Number · up to 2 decimals	0.00Tuvalu90.92Botswanamiddle 6.65	178	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

The same 191 countries in every year.

Not in this dataset · 34 places this site covers

UNCTAD gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAnguillaArubaBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCuraçaoFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGuamHong KongIsle of ManKosovoLiechtensteinMacauMonacoMontserratNew CaledoniaNiueNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPuerto RicoSaint MartinSan MarinoSint MaartenSomalilandTaiwanTurks and Caicos IslandsUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

   unctad.org

2. 2 · Their file

   State of Commodity Dependence 2026 — 2022–2024 average

   cdde_dependence.csv

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 29, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   2 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as commodity-dependence-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/commodity-dependence

Read from the data files behind UNCTAD's State of Commodity Dependence 2026 explorer, using the full-precision file its charts use rather than the rounded map labels. The three commodity-group shares are published to two decimals and kept as published.

• Charted

  Commodity Export Dependence by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Economy & Innovation
  • Mobility & Trade

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