Niger Malt, whether or not roasted Import quantity

Niger Malt, whether or not roasted Import quantity: Key Points

• What jumps out first is the 88% fall — Niger's malt, whether or not roasted import quantity went from 606.00 tonnes in 2014 to 69.96 tonnes in 2023.
• 2019: caves in to 199.89 tonnes (-67%).
• 2020: falls away sharply to 0.2500 tonnes (-100%).
• 2022: surges to 374.42 tonnes (+149668%).
• 2023: drops hard to 69.96 tonnes (-81%).
• Where it lands: 69.96 tonnes in 2023, a 88.5% drop from the 2014 starting line.

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 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.

This chart answers 'what happened' for Niger, not 'is that good or bad' — that second question needs a comparison point, either other countries or a longer run of history than what's shown here.

This is Niger 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 2020-to-2022 jump skips real missing years, worth keeping in mind before assuming a smooth path between them.

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.