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Samoa Lactose Import quantity
What is Samoa's lactose import quantity (t)? As of 2023, it's 0.4 Tons, down from 2.9 Tons in 2014.
| Label | Lactose Import quantity (t) |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 2.9 Tons |
| 2015 | 4.54 Tons |
| 2016 | 0.58 Tons |
| 2017 | 1.54 Tons |
| 2018 | 2.62 Tons |
| 2019 | 1.23 Tons |
| 2021 | 0.11 Tons |
| 2022 | 1.52 Tons |
| 2023 | 0.42 Tons |
Data Source: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Wantstats Repository
Samoa Lactose Import quantity: Key Points
- Start with the headline number: Samoa's lactose Import quantity closed 2023 at 0.4200 t, up from 2.90 t back in 2014 — a 86% fall over the stretch.
- 2016: drops hard to 0.5800 t (-87%).
- 2017: spikes to 1.54 t (+166%).
- 2021: collapses to 0.1100 t (-91%).
- 2022: shoots up to 1.52 t (+1282%).
- 2023: The chart closes at 0.4200 t. Over the full stretch from 2014, that's a 85.5% loss.
What The Volatility Really Means
The absence of a clean trend is itself informative — it suggests Samoa'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 Samoa 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 Samoa's periodically-updated official statistics, with the usual lag and modeling that comes with any indicator series like this.
The source simply doesn't have a reading for every year in this range — the 2019-to-2021 jump skips real missing years, worth keeping in mind before assuming a smooth path between them.
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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