unlike crude oil and petroleum products gas is produced and exported mainly by ldcs in asia accounting for between one quarter and one half of the exports of myanmar timorleste and yemen their exports are mainly absorbed by east asian markets they generate more than per cent of the merchandise exports of a group of african ldcs that are not producers of crude oil namely benin djibouti niger rwanda and senegal one half of these exports are absorbed by other countries in their respective subregions and the other half goes outside the continent as new mines came into operation the country s exports leapt fivefold in with respect to the previous year and rose further thereafter