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How much of Angola’s trade passes through the Cape of Good Hope?

In 2024, an estimated $30.9 billion of Angola’s trade passed through the Cape of Good Hope, 65.1% of its seaborne trade. That is $25.1 billion of exports and $5.8 billion of imports. The partners with the most trade through it are China, India and Indonesia.

Summary

Estimated value
$30.9billion
Of its seaborne trade
65.1%
Exports
$25.1billion
Imports
$5.8billion

Trend

Estimated value per year

Angola’s estimated trade through the Cape of Good Hope fell 8% between 2019 and 2024

Value in USD billions

  • Angola 30.9

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearEstimated valueOf its seaborne trade
1995$533 million10.7%
1996$815 million13.1%
1997$1.3 billion20.8%
1998$604 million11.7%
1999$1.6 billion25.6%
2000$3.2 billion33.4%
2001$2.6 billion28%
2002$3 billion28.7%
2003$4.1 billion32.4%
2004$9.4 billion48.1%
2005$11.6 billion38.7%
2006$17.6 billion42.6%
2007$19.9 billion40.2%
2008$33.1 billion39.1%
2009$26.6 billion46.1%
2010$37 billion54.2%
2011$41.6 billion52.3%
2012$57 billion61.5%
2013$52.2 billion58.2%
2014$52.7 billion62.2%
2015$29.3 billion58.4%
2016$22.3 billion59.2%
2017$31.2 billion69%
2018$36.3 billion69.5%
2019$33.7 billion70.5%
2020$22.1 billion72.5%
2021$29.8 billion73.5%
2022$37.7 billion60.4%
2023$30.9 billion61.7%
2024$30.9 billion65.1%

Partners whose trade crosses it

Estimated value of its trade with each partner that crosses the chokepoint; the percentage is the share of all its trade through the chokepoint, not of the pair’s trade.

  1. Angola–China$18.1 billion · 58.5%
  2. Angola–India$5.4 billion · 17.6%
  3. Angola–Indonesia$1.9 billion · 6.2%
  4. Angola–Singapore$1.6 billion · 5.1%
  5. Angola–South Africa$935 million · 3%
  6. Angola–Malaysia$683 million · 2.2%
  7. Angola–Thailand$653 million · 2.1%
  8. Angola–South Korea$604 million · 2%
  9. Angola–United Arab Emirates$411 million · 1.3%
  10. Angola–Japan$158 million · 0.51%

What crosses it

The products with the highest estimated value in 2024, with their share of the total through the chokepoint.

  1. Crude petroleum$22.3 billion · 72.4%
  2. Natural gas and LPG$1.8 billion · 5.9%
  3. Refined petroleum$1.5 billion · 4.8%
  4. Dredgers and floating cranes$599 million · 1.9%
  5. Rice$249 million · 0.81%
  6. Cars$210 million · 0.68%
  7. Trucks$156 million · 0.51%
  8. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$136 million · 0.44%
  9. Palm oil$105 million · 0.34%
  10. Seamless steel pipes$91 million · 0.29%

Reference ports

Luanda (100%)

Each port with the weight it receives from the country’s trade, based on where its GDP is generated and which coast is closest.

Other chokepoints it uses

Sources and method

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Methodology

We estimate the value crossing each chokepoint from BACI trade that travels by sea according to our mode heuristic, split between each country’s ports by where its GDP is generated and which coast is closest, and routed over our own sea network. It is an estimate, not a count of ships. It covers 99.9% of seaborne trade. The approach follows Verschuur, Lumma and Hall (Nature Communications, 2025). Data up to 2024.

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