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South Africa Dairy Products, milk equivalent Export value

What is South Africa's dairy products, milk equivalent export value (1000 usd)? As of 2023, it's 158.6K 1000 USD, down from 164.2K 1000 USD in 2014.

Author: Wantstats Research TeamSource: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Wantstats Repository
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South Africa Dairy Products, milk equivalent Export value — full underlying data
LabelDairy Products, milk equivalent Export value (1000 USD)
2014164169.05 1000 USD
2015129114.2 1000 USD
2016117349.12 1000 USD
2017151039.96 1000 USD
2018143286.17 1000 USD
2019132111 1000 USD
2020127604.84 1000 USD
2021151955.3 1000 USD
2022161562.85 1000 USD
2023158628.16 1000 USD

Data Source: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Wantstats Repository

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South Africa Dairy Products, milk equivalent Export value: Key Points

  • Look at the two endpoints first. South Africa's dairy Products, milk equivalent Export value opens at 164.17K USD in 2014 and closes at 158.63K USD in 2023 — down, roughly 3%.
  • 2015-2016: keeps falling, down to 117.35K USD (-29%).
  • 2017: rises to 151.04K USD (+29%).
  • 2018-2020: slides to 127.60K USD (-16%).
  • 2021-2022: builds to 161.56K USD (+27%).
  • By the last year on record, 2023, the figure sits at 158.63K USD — 3.4% below 2014.

Why Trade Snapped Back

A near-flat 3.4% net change usually means one of two things: genuine stability, or a big swing that cancels itself out. This is the second kind.

This rebound fits a global pattern: as economies reopened in 2021, trade flows recovered broadly, driven by pent-up demand and easing restrictions worldwide.

Don't skip past the 2015 outlier. A jump or drop of 21% in a single year is either a real, notable event or a break in how the underlying data was collected — both are worth knowing before you use this number.

Worth pairing this with the same indicator for a handful of comparable economies before concluding anything about South Africa specifically — a move that looks large here can be the regional norm, or genuinely unusual, and this chart alone can't say which.

Like most indicator series of this kind, the South Africa numbers here are compiled from periodic surveys and filled in with modeling for the years between — read the shape of the trend, hold individual annual figures loosely.

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