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How much of Angola’s trade passes through the Strait of Malacca and Singapore?

In 2024, an estimated $21.3 billion of Angola’s trade passed through the Strait of Malacca and Singapore, 44.8% of its seaborne trade. That is $17.5 billion of exports and $3.7 billion of imports. The partners with the most trade through it are China, Singapore and Thailand.

Summary

Estimated value
$21.3billion
Of its seaborne trade
44.8%
Exports
$17.5billion
Imports
$3.7billion

Trend

Estimated value per year

Angola’s estimated trade through the Strait of Malacca and Singapore fell 23% between 2019 and 2024

Value in USD billions

  • Angola 21.3

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearEstimated valueOf its seaborne trade
1995$412 million8.3%
1996$485 million7.8%
1997$1.2 billion18.3%
1998$436 million8.5%
1999$1.4 billion22.7%
2000$3 billion31.5%
2001$2.3 billion25%
2002$2.6 billion25.8%
2003$3.6 billion28.4%
2004$7.6 billion38.7%
2005$9.9 billion32.9%
2006$15.8 billion38.2%
2007$16.8 billion33.8%
2008$27.4 billion32.4%
2009$19.3 billion33.4%
2010$28.3 billion41.4%
2011$32.1 billion40.4%
2012$42.8 billion46.2%
2013$40.8 billion45.5%
2014$41 billion48.4%
2015$22.3 billion44.6%
2016$17.5 billion46.3%
2017$24.7 billion54.7%
2018$28.5 billion54.6%
2019$27.6 billion57.8%
2020$18.5 billion60.7%
2021$24.4 billion60.2%
2022$29.5 billion47.2%
2023$23.4 billion46.6%
2024$21.3 billion44.8%

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. Angola–China$18.1 billion · 85%
  2. Angola–Singapore$1.6 billion · 7.4%
  3. Angola–Thailand$653 million · 3.1%
  4. Angola–South Korea$604 million · 2.8%
  5. Angola–Japan$158 million · 0.74%
  6. Angola–Malaysia$89 million · 0.42%
  7. Angola–Taiwan$57 million · 0.27%
  8. Angola–Vietnam$31 million · 0.14%
  9. Angola–Russia$17 million · 0.08%
  10. Angola–Hong Kong$8 million · 0.04%

What crosses it

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

  1. Crude petroleum$16.2 billion · 76.3%
  2. Refined petroleum$870 million · 4.1%
  3. Dredgers and floating cranes$593 million · 2.8%
  4. Natural gas and LPG$559 million · 2.6%
  5. Rice$129 million · 0.6%
  6. Trucks$127 million · 0.6%
  7. Cars$100 million · 0.47%
  8. New tires$67 million · 0.32%
  9. Seamless steel pipes$54 million · 0.25%
  10. Hot-rolled flat steel$54 million · 0.25%

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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