Africa Corporate Wellness Market, by End User, 2018-2027
Papua New Guinea Lactose Import value
What is Papua New Guinea's lactose import value (1000 usd)? As of 2023, it's 38 1000 USD, up from 1 1000 USD in 2016.
| Label | Lactose Import value (1000 USD) |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 1000 USD |
| 2017 | 7 1000 USD |
| 2018 | 3 1000 USD |
| 2020 | 300 1000 USD |
| 2021 | 93 1000 USD |
| 2022 | 55 1000 USD |
| 2023 | 38 1000 USD |
Data Source: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Wantstats Repository
Papua New Guinea Lactose Import value: Key Points
- In 2023, Papua New Guinea's lactose Import value stood at 38.00 USD — up from 1.00 USD in 2016, a rise of roughly 3700%.
- 2017: leaps to 7.00 USD (+600%).
- 2018: collapses to 3.00 USD (-57%).
- 2020: surges to 300.00 USD (+9900%).
- 2021: falls away sharply to 93.00 USD (-69%).
- 2023: Series wraps up at 38.00 USD, a net 3700.0% gain across the whole run.
Why This Bounces Around So Much
The absence of a clean trend is itself informative — it suggests Papua New Guinea's underlying conditions here are unsettled or the measurement is noisy, not that nothing is happening.
Worth pairing this with the same indicator for a handful of comparable economies before concluding anything about Papua New Guinea specifically — a move that looks large here can be the regional norm, or genuinely unusual, and this chart alone can't say which.
Worth remembering this isn't a live feed — it's Papua New Guinea's periodically-updated official statistics, with the usual lag and modeling that comes with any indicator series like this.
There's a real gap between 2018 and 2020 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.
Small absolute numbers like these amplify percentage swings — the same-sized change in volume looks dramatic as a percentage here in a way it wouldn't for a bigger trade flow. Read the raw numbers, not just the percent.
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