The bar chart illustrates the export revenue of five product categories from 2015 to 2016, and the table shows the proportion of export values of each category between these two years.
Overall, export earnings saw growth in four out of five product groups between 2015 and 2016, while only gems and jewellery experienced a decrease. Additionally, petroleum products continuously contributed the highest export revenue, whereas textiles witnessed the most remarkable growth rate, by 15%.
Notably, petroleum products consistently generate the highest export revenue, at $60 billion in 2015, and increased to $62 billion one year later. Meanwhile, there was a marginal growth of engineered goods, from $57 billion to $60 billion in 2016, while the figure for gems and jewellery showed the opposite trend, from $42 billion to $39 billion. Among the product groups, agricultural products and textiles recorded lower export revenue. Specifically, agricultural products maintained a stable figure of around $30 billion in both years, whereas textiles rose from $25 billion to approximately $31 billion.
Regarding the changes between these years, textiles and engineered goods experienced considerable growth, with increases of 15.24% and 8.5%, respectively. Petroleum products and agricultural products saw moderate rises, at 3% and 0.81%, respectively. In contrast, gems and jewellery was the only group to witness a decline, falling by 5.18%.
