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Chile Lactose Export quantity
What is Chile's lactose export quantity (t)? As of 2022, it's 0.3 Tons, down from 6.2 Tons in 2014.
| Label | Lactose Export quantity (t) |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 6.23 Tons |
| 2015 | 0.63 Tons |
| 2016 | 0.44 Tons |
| 2017 | 0.2 Tons |
| 2018 | 61.42 Tons |
| 2019 | 0.03 Tons |
| 2020 | 0.11 Tons |
| 2021 | 0.49 Tons |
| 2022 | 0.33 Tons |
Data Source: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Wantstats Repository
Chile Lactose Export quantity: Key Points
- From 2014 to 2022, the direction for Chile's lactose Export quantity is clear — 6.23 t up to 0.3300 t, down by around 95%.
- 2018: leaps to 61.42 t (+30610%).
- 2019: drops hard to 0.0300 t (-100%).
- 2020: surges to 0.1100 t (+267%).
- 2021: shoots up to 0.4900 t (+345%).
- Where it lands: 0.3300 t in 2022, a 94.7% drop from the 2014 starting line.
What Drove The 2021 Trade Rebound
This chart doesn't support a simple narrative. It moves up, it moves down — pick any two years and you can tell almost any story you want. Look at the whole series, not a slice of it.
The pace of this recovery matches the broader trade rebound most economies experienced in 2021, tied to reopening and renewed demand.
A useful next step is checking whether Chile's policy or economic context changed materially over this period — lactose Export quantity series like this one often reflect a specific decision or shock more than a slow organic drift.
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.
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.
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