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Gambia Essential oils n.e.c. Import quantity
What is Gambia's essential oils n.e.c. import quantity (t)? As of 2023, it's 151.1 Tons, down from 239.5 Tons in 2014.
| Label | Essential oils n.e.c. Import quantity (t) |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 239.5 Tons |
| 2015 | 419.95 Tons |
| 2016 | 295.19 Tons |
| 2017 | 350.57 Tons |
| 2018 | 258.24 Tons |
| 2019 | 363.92 Tons |
| 2020 | 310.87 Tons |
| 2021 | 201.37 Tons |
| 2022 | 117.27 Tons |
| 2023 | 151.08 Tons |
Data Source: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Wantstats Repository
Gambia Essential oils n.e.c. Import quantity: Key Points
- Look at the two endpoints first. Gambia's essential oils n.e.c. Import quantity opens at 239.50 t in 2014 and closes at 151.08 t in 2023 — down, roughly 37%.
- 2015: leaps to 419.95 t (+75%).
- 2019: shoots up to 363.92 t (+41%).
- 2021: collapses to 201.37 t (-35%).
- 2022: falls away sharply to 117.27 t (-42%).
- Net result across the whole period: down 36.9%, closing 2023 at 151.08 t.
Why Trade Collapsed in 2020
This is a series to read year by year, not to summarize with a single trend line. Doing the latter would flatten out real, meaningful movement.
This isn't a local trade failure — 2020's disruption to global supply chains and demand hit trade flows broadly, not just here.
A useful next step is checking whether Gambia's policy or economic context changed materially over this period — essential oils n.e.c. Import quantity series like this one often reflect a specific decision or shock more than a slow organic drift.
As with almost all cross-national statistical series, this one blends real survey years with modeled estimates for the gaps — the year-to-year precision is lower than the chart's smooth line suggests.
This is a small trade volume in absolute terms — at this scale, a single shipment, buyer, or contract can move the national total by a large percentage. Don't read year-to-year swings here as an economy-wide signal.
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