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

In 2024, an estimated $2.9 billion of Cameroon’s trade passed through the Strait of Dover, 20.8% of its seaborne trade. That is $2.1 billion of exports and $837 million of imports. The partners with the most trade through it are the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium.

Summary

Estimated value
$2.9billion
Of its seaborne trade
20.8%
Exports
$2.1billion
Imports
$837million

Trend

Estimated value per year

Cameroon’s estimated trade through the Strait of Dover rose 53% between 2019 and 2024

Value in USD billions

  • Cameroon 2.9

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearEstimated valueOf its seaborne trade
1995$677 million21.3%
1996$705 million21%
1997$726 million18.3%
1998$640 million19.1%
1999$570 million18.7%
2000$584 million15.8%
2001$713 million18.5%
2002$655 million18%
2003$841 million19.3%
2004$827 million16%
2005$1 billion17.4%
2006$1 billion14.8%
2007$1.2 billion13.7%
2008$1.5 billion16.1%
2009$1.5 billion20.2%
2010$1.4 billion17.2%
2011$1.6 billion17%
2012$1.6 billion16.1%
2013$1.4 billion14.5%
2014$1.6 billion14.2%
2015$1.2 billion13.7%
2016$1.2 billion15.4%
2017$1.4 billion15%
2018$1.6 billion15.2%
2019$1.9 billion17.6%
2020$1.9 billion19.1%
2021$2 billion17.2%
2022$3.1 billion21.1%
2023$3.1 billion22.5%
2024$2.9 billion20.8%

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. Cameroon–Netherlands$1.5 billion · 51.7%
  2. Cameroon–Germany$631 million · 21.5%
  3. Cameroon–Belgium$488 million · 16.6%
  4. Cameroon–Poland$86 million · 2.9%
  5. Cameroon–France$68 million · 2.3%
  6. Cameroon–Lithuania$35 million · 1.2%
  7. Cameroon–Czechia$26 million · 0.89%
  8. Cameroon–Latvia$21 million · 0.73%
  9. Cameroon–Switzerland$17 million · 0.56%
  10. Cameroon–Estonia$13 million · 0.45%

What crosses it

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

  1. Cocoa beans$848 million · 28.8%
  2. Crude petroleum$745 million · 25.3%
  3. Refined petroleum$236 million · 8%
  4. Cocoa paste$168 million · 5.7%
  5. Wheat$124 million · 4.2%
  6. Cocoa butter$118 million · 4%
  7. Sawn wood$104 million · 3.5%
  8. Used clothing$56 million · 1.9%
  9. Bananas$51 million · 1.7%
  10. Cars$42 million · 1.4%

Reference ports

Douala (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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