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

In 2024, an estimated $4.2 billion of Angola’s trade passed through the Strait of Gibraltar, 8.9% of its seaborne trade. That is $3.3 billion of exports and $927 million of imports. The partners with the most trade through it are Spain, Italy and France.

Summary

Estimated value
$4.2billion
Of its seaborne trade
8.9%
Exports
$3.3billion
Imports
$927million

Trend

Estimated value per year

Angola’s estimated trade through the Strait of Gibraltar rose 38% between 2019 and 2024

Value in USD billions

  • Angola 4.2

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearEstimated valueOf its seaborne trade
1995$441 million8.9%
1996$563 million9%
1997$341 million5.3%
1998$290 million5.6%
1999$262 million4.3%
2000$466 million4.9%
2001$640 million6.9%
2002$1 billion10%
2003$784 million6.1%
2004$905 million4.6%
2005$1.9 billion6.3%
2006$2 billion4.8%
2007$2.3 billion4.7%
2008$4.8 billion5.7%
2009$3.5 billion6%
2010$3.2 billion4.7%
2011$4.1 billion5.1%
2012$3.8 billion4.1%
2013$4.9 billion5.4%
2014$6.3 billion7.5%
2015$4.5 billion8.9%
2016$2.5 billion6.5%
2017$2.6 billion5.7%
2018$3.1 billion6%
2019$3.1 billion6.4%
2020$2 billion6.7%
2021$2.1 billion5.2%
2022$5.6 billion8.9%
2023$4.6 billion9.1%
2024$4.2 billion8.9%

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–Spain$2.1 billion · 49%
  2. Angola–Italy$1 billion · 24%
  3. Angola–France$857 million · 20.3%
  4. Angola–Turkey$121 million · 2.9%
  5. Angola–Romania$67 million · 1.6%
  6. Angola–Egypt$38 million · 0.91%
  7. Angola–Russia$20 million · 0.47%
  8. Angola–Azerbaijan$18 million · 0.42%
  9. Angola–Lebanon$13 million · 0.31%
  10. Angola–Hungary$3 million · 0.08%

What crosses it

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

  1. Crude petroleum$2.9 billion · 69.3%
  2. Natural gas and LPG$189 million · 4.5%
  3. Cargo and cruise ships$142 million · 3.4%
  4. Wheat$101 million · 2.4%
  5. Dredgers and floating cranes$73 million · 1.7%
  6. Valves and taps$66 million · 1.6%
  7. Flexible metal tubing$64 million · 1.5%
  8. Seamless steel pipes$47 million · 1.1%
  9. Steel structures$30 million · 0.72%
  10. Other industrial machines$24 million · 0.56%

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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