Mozambique Cottonseed oil Export quantity

Mozambique Cottonseed oil Export quantity: Key Points

• From 2014 to 2023, the direction for Mozambique's cottonseed oil export quantity is clear — 30.00 tonnes up to 2.46 tonnes, down by around 92%.
• 2017: spikes to 2.49 tonnes (+24800%).
• 2018: leaps to 10.32 tonnes (+314%).
• 2019: shoots up to 28.05 tonnes (+172%).
• 2023: surges to 2.46 tonnes (+884%).
• 2023: Close at 2.46 tonnes — a loss of 91.8% since 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.

A useful next step is checking whether Mozambique's policy or economic context changed materially over this period — cottonseed oil export quantity series like this one often reflect a specific decision or shock more than a slow organic drift.

This is Mozambique data, published by the source linked below. Indicator series like this are usually modeled/estimated between survey years, not measured fresh every year — trust the multi-year direction over any one data point.

The source simply doesn't have a reading for every year in this range — the 2014-to-2016 jump skips real missing years, worth keeping in mind before assuming a smooth path between them.

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.