Benin Flours and meals of oil seeds or oleaginous fruits, except those of mustard Export quantity

Benin Flours and meals of oil seeds or oleaginous fruits, except those of mustard Export quantity: Key Points

• What jumps out first is the 99% fall — Benin's flours and meals of oil seeds or oleaginous fruits, except those of mustard export quantity went from 4.12 tonnes in 2014 to 0.0500 tonnes in 2023.
• 2016: shoots up to 3.92K tonnes (+159740%).
• 2017: spikes to 9.50K tonnes (+143%).
• 2019: collapses to 85.00 tonnes (-98%).
• 2023: falls away sharply to 0.0500 tonnes (-97%).
• 2023: Final reading, 0.0500 tonnes. That's 98.8% down on 2014.

What Broke Global Trade In 2020

Treat this less like a trend and more like a set of individual events. Something different seems to be driving each up or down move rather than one consistent force.

The scale of this drop matches what happened to trade worldwide in 2020, as the pandemic disrupted both the supply side and the demand side of trade at once.

On its own, this line shows movement, not meaning. Whether Benin's flours and meals of oil seeds or oleaginous fruits, except those of mustard export quantity trend here is a success or a warning sign depends on context this single chart doesn't carry — comparable countries, policy changes, or a longer time horizon.

Source here is a national/international statistics body, not a live measurement — most time series like this are interpolated or modeled between actual survey years. Treat the trend as the real signal, individual years as approximate.

Small absolute numbers like these amplify percentage swings — the same-sized change in volume looks dramatic as a percentage here in a way it wouldn't for a bigger trade flow. Read the raw numbers, not just the percent.