Bulgaria Pig fat, rendered Export quantity

Bulgaria Pig fat, rendered Export quantity: Key Points

• The 2016-2023 run puts Bulgaria's pig fat, rendered export quantity at 1.76K tonnes by the end, up from 1.16K tonnes at the start — a rise of some 52%.
• 2018: collapses to 434.72 tonnes (-61%).
• 2019: caves in to 197.87 tonnes (-54%).
• 2021: spikes to 1.09K tonnes (+666%).
• 2022: surges to 1.50K tonnes (+38%).
• Take the whole run together and it's a 52.0% gain, landing at 1.76K tonnes by 2023.

The Pandemic Trade Shock, Explained

There's no single story that fits every year here. Bulgaria's figure moves both ways across the period — don't extrapolate from the most recent year alone.

Read this drop as part of the worldwide pandemic trade shock — lockdowns disrupted shipping, production, and demand together, and most countries' trade data shows the same pattern.

The pace of this recovery matches the broader trade rebound most economies experienced in 2021, tied to reopening and renewed demand.

Worth pairing this with the same indicator for a handful of comparable economies before concluding anything about Bulgaria specifically — a move that looks large here can be the regional norm, or genuinely unusual, and this chart alone can't say which.

Check the source link for methodology before quoting a specific year from this chart — Bulgaria's underlying statistics agency, like most, revises and re-estimates historical figures as better data comes in.

At these volumes, this trade flow often comes down to a handful of shipments or trading partners. A big single-year swing is more likely one contract or one buyer's order than a broad economic trend.