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

In 2024, an estimated $4.2 billion of Gabon’s trade passed through the Strait of Malacca and Singapore, 40.2% of its seaborne trade. That is $3.4 billion of exports and $827 million of imports. The partners with the most trade through it are China, Thailand and Japan.

Summary

Estimated value
$4.2billion
Of its seaborne trade
40.2%
Exports
$3.4billion
Imports
$827million

Trend

Estimated value per year

Gabon’s estimated trade through the Strait of Malacca and Singapore fell 33% between 2019 and 2024

Value in USD billions

  • Gabon 4.2

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearEstimated valueOf its seaborne trade
1995$466 million14.3%
1996$648 million14.9%
1997$783 million16.3%
1998$500 million13.5%
1999$681 million18.4%
2000$668 million15.1%
2001$524 million13.1%
2002$444 million11.5%
2003$703 million16.1%
2004$646 million12.2%
2005$797 million12%
2006$1.3 billion20.8%
2007$1.9 billion23.4%
2008$2.9 billion27%
2009$1.6 billion21.4%
2010$1.4 billion13.8%
2011$1.8 billion15.2%
2012$4.4 billion26.3%
2013$3.5 billion19.4%
2014$5.9 billion30%
2015$3.1 billion20.8%
2016$3.8 billion36.7%
2017$3.5 billion37.9%
2018$4.6 billion37%
2019$6.3 billion51.5%
2020$4.5 billion46.3%
2021$4.5 billion40.7%
2022$5.9 billion42.7%
2023$5 billion36.5%
2024$4.2 billion40.2%

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. Gabon–China$3.6 billion · 86.8%
  2. Gabon–Thailand$273 million · 6.5%
  3. Gabon–Japan$95 million · 2.3%
  4. Gabon–Malaysia$78 million · 1.9%
  5. Gabon–South Korea$44 million · 1.1%
  6. Gabon–Cambodia$25 million · 0.59%
  7. Gabon–Singapore$23 million · 0.54%
  8. Gabon–Philippines$10 million · 0.24%
  9. Gabon–Taiwan$4 million · 0.09%
  10. Gabon–Hong Kong$816 thousand · 0.02%

What crosses it

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

  1. Crude petroleum$2.1 billion · 50%
  2. Manganese ore$929 million · 22.2%
  3. Sawn wood$285 million · 6.8%
  4. Trucks$36 million · 0.86%
  5. Rice$33 million · 0.78%
  6. Cars$26 million · 0.63%
  7. Wood veneer sheets$26 million · 0.62%
  8. Seamless steel pipes$22 million · 0.53%
  9. Bulldozers and excavators$22 million · 0.52%
  10. New tires$17 million · 0.41%

Reference ports

Libreville (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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