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Trade between Belgium and Côte d'Ivoire

In 2024, Belgium exported $910 million to Côte d'Ivoire and imported $553 million. Belgium ran a surplus of $357 million with Côte d'Ivoire, compared with a deficit of $369 million in 2019. Côte d'Ivoire was Belgium’s 49th largest trading partner (0.2% of its trade), and Belgium was Côte d'Ivoire’s 8th (3%).

Summary

Belgium → Côte d'Ivoire
$910million
Côte d'Ivoire → Belgium
$553million
Belgium’s balance
$357million

Balance

Belgium’s trade balance with Côte d'Ivoire

Trade between Belgium and Côte d'Ivoire grew 4.6-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 910
  • Imports 553
  • Balance +357

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$96 million$222 million-$126 million
1996$109 million$311 million-$202 million
1997$117 million$324 million-$206 million
1998$110 million$215 million-$106 million
1999$122 million$164 million-$42 million
2000$115 million$200 million-$85 million
2001$75 million$155 million-$80 million
2002$88 million$231 million-$143 million
2003$89 million$268 million-$179 million
2004$117 million$316 million-$198 million
2005$105 million$210 million-$105 million
2006$106 million$287 million-$181 million
2007$126 million$291 million-$165 million
2008$241 million$355 million-$114 million
2009$181 million$207 million-$26 million
2010$114 million$257 million-$143 million
2011$103 million$351 million-$249 million
2012$168 million$421 million-$253 million
2013$188 million$524 million-$337 million
2014$150 million$357 million-$207 million
2015$173 million$764 million-$592 million
2016$211 million$659 million-$447 million
2017$279 million$597 million-$318 million
2018$249 million$429 million-$181 million
2019$172 million$541 million-$369 million
2020$230 million$648 million-$418 million
2021$499 million$461 million$38 million
2022$837 million$646 million$191 million
2023$632 million$618 million$13 million
2024$910 million$553 million$357 million

What they sell each other

What Belgium sells to Côte d'Ivoire

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

  1. Refined petroleum$700 million · 76.9%
    826 thousand tonnes · Belgium’s destinations
  2. Trucks$29 million · 3.2%
    3 thousand tonnes · Belgium’s destinations
  3. Copper wire$17 million · 1.9%
    2 thousand tonnes
  4. Vaccines, blood and antisera$12 million · 1.3%
    19 tonnes · Belgium’s destinations
  5. Malt$12 million · 1.3%
    18 thousand tonnes
  6. Eggs in shell$11 million · 1.2%
    1 thousand tonnes
  7. Cane and beet sugar$9 million · 1%
    15 thousand tonnes
  8. Steel structures$9 million · 0.98%
    1 thousand tonnes
  9. Catalysts$7 million · 0.78%
    199 tonnes
  10. Pet and animal feed$5 million · 0.56%
    5 thousand tonnes

What Côte d'Ivoire sells to Belgium

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

  1. Cocoa beans$327 million · 59.2%
    125 thousand tonnes · Côte d'Ivoire’s destinations
  2. Natural rubber$96 million · 17.4%
    60 thousand tonnes · Côte d'Ivoire’s destinations
  3. Bananas$25 million · 4.6%
    41 thousand tonnes
  4. Avocados, mangoes, pineapples and dates$16 million · 2.9%
    13 thousand tonnes
  5. Coal tar oils$12 million · 2.2%
    21 thousand tonnes
  6. Coconuts, Brazil nuts and cashews$12 million · 2.1%
    3 thousand tonnes
  7. Coffee$10 million · 1.8%
    3 thousand tonnes · Belgium’s sources
  8. Cocoa butter$8 million · 1.5%
    3 thousand tonnes
  9. Airplanes and helicopters$7 million · 1.3%
    6 tonnes
  10. Prepared fish and caviar$7 million · 1.3%
    1 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Antwerp to Abidjan.

The estimated sea route between Antwerp and Abidjan is 3,835 nautical miles (7,101 km) long: ≈ 9–11.5 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$1.4 billion · 97.6%
  2. Air$35 million · 2.4%

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

How much each matters to the other

Côte d'Ivoire was Belgium’s 49th largest trading partner (0.2% of its trade), and Belgium was Côte d'Ivoire’s 8th (3%).

Côte d'Ivoire in Belgium’s trade
0.2%
Côte d'Ivoire’s rank among Belgium’s partners
49th
Belgium in Côte d'Ivoire’s trade
3.4%
Belgium’s rank among Côte d'Ivoire’s partners
8th

Compare with

Other partners of Belgium

Other partners of Côte d'Ivoire

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.

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