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Trade between Angola and the United Kingdom

In 2024, Angola exported $703 million to the United Kingdom and imported $1.1 billion. Angola ran a deficit of $375 million with the United Kingdom, compared with a deficit of $404 million in 2019. The United Kingdom was Angola’s 7th largest trading partner (3% of its trade), and Angola was the United Kingdom’s 57th (0.2%).

Summary

Angola → United Kingdom
$703million
United Kingdom → Angola
$1.1billion
Angola’s balance
-$375million

Balance

Angola’s trade balance with the United Kingdom

Trade between Angola and the United Kingdom grew 24.1-fold since 1995

USD billions (current). Angola’s exports and imports; bars: its balance (green surplus, red deficit).

  • Exports 0.7
  • Imports 1.1
  • Balance -0.4

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$35 million$39 million-$4 million
1996$13 million$60 million-$47 million
1997$28 million$119 million-$91 million
1998$7 million$63 million-$56 million
1999$13 million$72 million-$59 million
2000$3 million$106 million-$103 million
2001$98 million$133 million-$35 million
2002$27 million$98 million-$71 million
2003$3 million$167 million-$164 million
2004$7 million$197 million-$190 million
2005$69 million$312 million-$243 million
2006$13 million$424 million-$411 million
2007$355 million$446 million-$91 million
2008$874 million$756 million$118 million
2009$413 million$995 million-$581 million
2010$62 million$842 million-$779 million
2011$449 million$755 million-$306 million
2012$1.2 billion$986 million$173 million
2013$985 million$945 million$39 million
2014$307 million$1.1 billion-$805 million
2015$1 billion$773 million$271 million
2016$396 million$533 million-$137 million
2017$313 million$562 million-$249 million
2018$345 million$469 million-$125 million
2019$49 million$453 million-$404 million
2020$29 million$445 million-$416 million
2021$119 million$525 million-$405 million
2022$1.4 billion$638 million$744 million
2023$411 million$752 million-$341 million
2024$703 million$1.1 billion-$375 million

What they sell each other

What Angola sells to the United Kingdom

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Crude petroleum$467 million · 66.4%
    712 thousand tonnes · Angola’s destinations
  2. Natural gas and LPG$119 million · 16.9%
    207 thousand tonnes
  3. Turbojets and gas turbines$30 million · 4.3%
    32 tonnes · the United Kingdom’s sources
  4. Refined petroleum$29 million · 4.1%
    36 thousand tonnes · the United Kingdom’s sources
  5. Warships and other vessels$15 million · 2.1%
    7 tonnes
  6. Cargo and cruise ships$9 million · 1.3%
    7 thousand tonnes
  7. Surveying instruments$5 million · 0.7%
    6 tonnes
  8. 18 tonnes
  9. Valves and taps$3 million · 0.43%
    55 tonnes
  10. Other iron or steel articles$3 million · 0.41%
    72 tonnes

What the United Kingdom sells to Angola

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Refined petroleum$406 million · 37.7%
    294 thousand tonnes · the United Kingdom’s destinations
  2. Valves and taps$148 million · 13.7%
    1 thousand tonnes
  3. Stamps and banknotes$108 million · 10%
    1 tonne
  4. Other iron or steel articles$41 million · 3.8%
    852 tonnes
  5. Other industrial machines$32 million · 3%
    387 tonnes
  6. Control instruments$26 million · 2.4%
    104 tonnes
  7. Liquid pumps$24 million · 2.2%
    197 tonnes
  8. Iron or steel pipe fittings$20 million · 1.9%
    395 tonnes
  9. Turbojets and gas turbines$14 million · 1.3%
    27 tonnes · the United Kingdom’s destinations
  10. Plastic pipes and hoses$14 million · 1.3%
    165 tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Luanda to Felixstowe.

The estimated sea route between Luanda and Felixstowe is 5,135 nautical miles (9,511 km) long: ≈ 12–15.5 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Strait of Dover.

Sailing estimate without port calls, waiting or transshipment; not a schedule. One main reference port per country: in large countries it does not represent all of its ports.

Split by transport mode

  1. Sea$1.2 billion · 65%
  2. Air$624 million · 35%

Mode estimated from value per kilo and geography; both directions together.

How much each matters to the other

The United Kingdom was Angola’s 7th largest trading partner (3% of its trade), and Angola was the United Kingdom’s 57th (0.2%).

The United Kingdom in Angola’s trade
3.1%
The United Kingdom’s rank among Angola’s partners
7th
Angola in the United Kingdom’s trade
0.2%
Angola’s rank among the United Kingdom’s partners
57th

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Sources and methodology

Sources and licenses

Methodology

Goods trade from CEPII BACI (BACI_HS92_V202601), in current US dollars, with exports and imports reconciled between countries. The transport mode is our own estimate based on value per kilo and geography. The sea route comes from our own network derived from World Bank shipping density (not from nautical charts), between one main reference port per country (World Port Index); days are the distance at 14 and 18 knots, without port calls or waiting. Data up to 2024.