Performance analysis of agricultural foreign trade in OECD countries

The agricultural sector has played very important roles in the economic and social development of countries throughout history. Therefore, understanding the success of developed countries in the agricultural sector and implementing the necessary measures will provide a light to the development processes of developing countries. In this direction, it is aimed to analyze the economic performance of OECD countries in this sector. In the study, TOPSIS, VIKOR, MABAC, COCOSO and PIV methods were preferred for country ranking while the weighting of macroeconomic criteria of the agricultural sector of the countries was determined by CRITIC method from multi-criteria decision-making methods. Copeland method was also used to obtain the common result of the multi-criteria decision-making methods used in the study. The variables of the study using annual data for 2000-2019 are food CPI, food PPI, total employment amount, agricultural employment amount, exchange rate, GDP, urban population ratio, agricultural raw material exports, share of agricultural exports in total exports and net exports. According to COPELAND method, France ranked second and third respectively in 2015 and 2016, while it was the highest performing country in all other years. The other countries that performed best during the period covered in the study were the United States, Iceland, Chile and New Zealand, while the lowest performing countries were Slovakia, Korea, Poland, Japan and Hungary.