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How much of Angola’s trade passes through the Strait of Dover?

In 2024, an estimated $2.7 billion of Angola’s trade passed through the Strait of Dover, 5.7% of its seaborne trade. That is $1.2 billion of exports and $1.5 billion of imports. The partners with the most trade through it are the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.

Summary

Estimated value
$2.7billion
Of its seaborne trade
5.7%
Exports
$1.2billion
Imports
$1.5billion

Trend

Estimated value per year

Angola’s estimated trade through the Strait of Dover rose 37% between 2019 and 2024

Value in USD billions

  • Angola 2.7

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearEstimated valueOf its seaborne trade
1995$603 million12.1%
1996$627 million10.1%
1997$555 million8.6%
1998$667 million13%
1999$836 million13.8%
2000$999 million10.6%
2001$1.1 billion11.4%
2002$1.1 billion10.8%
2003$1.1 billion8.6%
2004$811 million4.1%
2005$1.6 billion5.3%
2006$1.9 billion4.6%
2007$3.3 billion6.6%
2008$6.3 billion7.5%
2009$4.6 billion8%
2010$4.4 billion6.4%
2011$5 billion6.3%
2012$3.6 billion3.9%
2013$4.1 billion4.6%
2014$4.4 billion5.2%
2015$1.9 billion3.8%
2016$2 billion5.2%
2017$1.4 billion3.1%
2018$1.6 billion3.2%
2019$2 billion4.1%
2020$1.3 billion4.2%
2021$1.6 billion3.9%
2022$7.6 billion12.2%
2023$4.3 billion8.6%
2024$2.7 billion5.7%

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–Netherlands$858 million · 32%
  2. Angola–Belgium$554 million · 20.7%
  3. Angola–Germany$417 million · 15.6%
  4. Angola–Poland$203 million · 7.6%
  5. Angola–Norway$196 million · 7.3%
  6. Angola–France$146 million · 5.5%
  7. Angola–Lithuania$70 million · 2.6%
  8. Angola–Latvia$62 million · 2.3%
  9. Angola–United Kingdom$54 million · 2%
  10. Angola–Sweden$47 million · 1.8%

What crosses it

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

  1. Crude petroleum$831 million · 31%
  2. Refined petroleum$418 million · 15.6%
  3. Wheat$393 million · 14.7%
  4. Natural gas and LPG$190 million · 7.1%
  5. Cargo and cruise ships$145 million · 5.4%
  6. Seamless steel pipes$27 million · 1%
  7. Malt$25 million · 0.92%
  8. Trucks$23 million · 0.87%
  9. Food processing machinery$22 million · 0.84%
  10. Flexible metal tubing$19 million · 0.72%

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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