Middle East Ovine Market
What is Libya's cereal preparations import quantity (t)? As of 2022, it's 15.8 Tons, up from 0.1 Tons in 2014.
| Label | Cereal preparations Import quantity (t) |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 0.15 Tons |
| 2017 | 56.83 Tons |
| 2018 | 17.05 Tons |
| 2019 | 24.53 Tons |
| 2020 | 20.84 Tons |
| 2021 | 74.47 Tons |
| 2022 | 15.81 Tons |
Data Source: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Wantstats Repository
This is not a clean trend line, so resist the urge to draw one. Libya's number moves both directions across the period — treat any single year as a snapshot, not a forecast.
This decline fits a global pattern: COVID-19 disrupted supply chains and demand simultaneously in 2020, and trade flows fell broadly across most economies in the same year.
Read this bounce as part of the worldwide trade recovery — most economies saw trade flows pick back up as reopening and stimulus drove demand higher in the same period.
This data comes from Libya's statistical reporting, sourced from the link below. As with most cross-country indicator datasets, expect the underlying survey to run less often than annually, with gaps modeled in between.
There's a real gap between 2014 and 2017 in the underlying data — not a zero, not an interpolated value, just missing. Don't read a straight line between those two points as what actually happened in between.
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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