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

In 2024, an estimated $2.8 billion of Equatorial Guinea’s trade passed through the Cape of Good Hope, 54.2% of its seaborne trade. That is $2.6 billion of exports and $240 million of imports. The partners with the most trade through it are China, India and Thailand.

Summary

Estimated value
$2.8billion
Of its seaborne trade
54.2%
Exports
$2.6billion
Imports
$240million

Trend

Estimated value per year

Equatorial Guinea’s estimated trade through the Cape of Good Hope fell 22% between 2019 and 2024

Value in USD billions

  • Equatorial Guinea 2.8

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearEstimated valueOf its seaborne trade
1995$32 million19%
1996$44 million16.4%
1997$206 million41.4%
1998$114 million18.3%
1999$264 million26%
2000$376 million25.8%
2001$555 million28.4%
2002$489 million24.1%
2003$477 million13.5%
2004$1.7 billion36.7%
2005$2.2 billion30.1%
2006$3.9 billion40.7%
2007$3.7 billion36.2%
2008$6.3 billion36.1%
2009$3.5 billion34.1%
2010$2.6 billion24.2%
2011$4.6 billion30.6%
2012$6.5 billion38.1%
2013$6.9 billion41.9%
2014$6.9 billion47%
2015$3.7 billion48%
2016$2.8 billion50.4%
2017$3.4 billion59%
2018$4.2 billion56.6%
2019$3.7 billion63.6%
2020$2 billion54.4%
2021$3.3 billion56.9%
2022$3.8 billion44.9%
2023$2.8 billion47.4%
2024$2.8 billion54.2%

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. Equatorial Guinea–China$1.2 billion · 40.6%
  2. Equatorial Guinea–India$609 million · 21.4%
  3. Equatorial Guinea–Thailand$201 million · 7.1%
  4. Equatorial Guinea–Japan$199 million · 7%
  5. Equatorial Guinea–South Korea$196 million · 6.9%
  6. Equatorial Guinea–Indonesia$188 million · 6.6%
  7. Equatorial Guinea–Taiwan$140 million · 4.9%
  8. Equatorial Guinea–Philippines$128 million · 4.5%
  9. Equatorial Guinea–Malaysia$11 million · 0.37%
  10. Equatorial Guinea–South Africa$7 million · 0.25%

What crosses it

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

  1. Natural gas and LPG$1.4 billion · 50.4%
  2. Crude petroleum$1.1 billion · 38.6%
  3. Logs$35 million · 1.2%
  4. Ferrous scrap$15 million · 0.51%
  5. Sawn wood$13 million · 0.46%
  6. Palm oil$11 million · 0.38%
  7. Rice$10 million · 0.36%
  8. Furniture$8 million · 0.29%
  9. Wood veneer sheets$8 million · 0.28%
  10. Plastic packaging$7 million · 0.25%

Reference ports

Malabo (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

Sources and licenses

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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