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Who buys South Africa’s refined petroleum products? Export destinations 2024

In 2024, South Africa exported $2.2 billion of refined petroleum products (2.6 million tonnes), 0.3% of the world total. Its main destinations were Botswana (31%), Eswatini (11%) and Lesotho (9%). South Africa was the world’s 45th-largest exporter of refined petroleum products.

Summary

Value
$2.2billion
Tonnes
2.6million tonnes
Share of world total
0.3%
World rank
45th
Routes to the main destinations. Width: value; color: estimated transport mode.SeaAirLand

Destinations

The 20 main destinations in the latest year.

PartnerValue (USD millions)TonnesUSD per tonneShareMode
Botswana666Tonnes: 889,602USD per tonne: $74830.8%Land
Eswatini235Tonnes: 322,181USD per tonne: $73010.9%Land
Lesotho188Tonnes: 266,707USD per tonne: $7068.7%Land
Zimbabwe137Tonnes: 93,251USD per tonne: $1,4716.4%Land
Zambia121Tonnes: 74,949USD per tonne: $1,6095.6%Sea
Liberia98.6Tonnes: 164,874USD per tonne: $5984.6%Sea
Angola87.7Tonnes: 72,582USD per tonne: $1,2094.1%Sea
Democratic Republic of the Congo87.7Tonnes: 78,875USD per tonne: $1,1124.1%Sea
Mozambique81.2Tonnes: 67,360USD per tonne: $1,2053.8%Land
Mauritius58.1Tonnes: 102,865USD per tonne: $5652.7%Sea
Marshall Islands50.3Tonnes: 87,397USD per tonne: $5752.3%Sea
Namibia49.4Tonnes: 22,482USD per tonne: $2,1962.3%Land
United States45.9Tonnes: 40,357USD per tonne: $1,1382.1%Sea
Panama34.7Tonnes: 29,525USD per tonne: $1,1751.6%Sea
Singapore re-exports32.1Tonnes: 33,322USD per tonne: $9641.5%Sea
Bahamas25.5Tonnes: 28,211USD per tonne: $9041.2%Sea
United Arab Emirates21Tonnes: 43,877USD per tonne: $4780.97%Sea
Myanmar20.9Tonnes: 25,550USD per tonne: $8180.97%Sea
Hong Kong re-exports10.4Tonnes: 20,913USD per tonne: $4970.48%Sea
India10.3Tonnes: 14,599USD per tonne: $7070.48%Sea

Trend

Who it sells to

Botswana has been its main destination since 2014

Value in USD billions. The five largest destinations in 2024.

  • Botswana 0.67
  • Eswatini 0.24
  • Lesotho 0.19
  • Zimbabwe 0.14
  • Zambia 0.12

Source: CEPII BACI

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Partner19952024
Botswana00.67
Eswatini00.24
Lesotho00.19
Zimbabwe0.050.14
Zambia< 0.010.12

Sources and methodology

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Methodology

Goods trade from CEPII BACI (BACI_HS92_V202601), which reconciles what exporters and importers report: countries that stopped reporting (Russia since 2022) appear with their partners’ data. FOB values in current US dollars; tonnes when BACI reports them. The price per tonne is the value of the rows with a weight divided by that weight. The transport mode is our own estimate based on value per kilo and geography. Data up to 2024.

Hong Kong, Singapore, the Netherlands and Belgium re-export goods from other countries: their figures include transit.

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