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Trade between China and Guyana

In 2024, China exported $981 million to Guyana and imported $430 million. China ran a surplus of $551 million with Guyana, compared with a surplus of $192 million in 2019. Guyana was China’s 132nd largest trading partner (0% of its trade), and China was Guyana’s 6th (5%).

Summary

China → Guyana
$981million
Guyana → China
$430million
China’s balance
$551million

Balance

China’s trade balance with Guyana

Trade between China and Guyana grew 261.5-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 981
  • Imports 430
  • Balance +551

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$5 million$0$5 million
1996$5 million$38 thousand$5 million
1997$15 million$13 thousand$14 million
1998$14 million$2 million$12 million
1999$16 million$3 million$12 million
2000$21 million$3 million$17 million
2001$20 million$4 million$16 million
2002$23 million$6 million$18 million
2003$25 million$709 thousand$24 million
2004$30 million$2 million$28 million
2005$37 million$4 million$33 million
2006$66 million$18 million$49 million
2007$99 million$16 million$82 million
2008$91 million$11 million$80 million
2009$70 million$14 million$56 million
2010$96 million$15 million$82 million
2011$140 million$13 million$127 million
2012$235 million$23 million$212 million
2013$189 million$18 million$171 million
2014$158 million$41 million$118 million
2015$148 million$38 million$111 million
2016$141 million$30 million$111 million
2017$185 million$56 million$129 million
2018$220 million$54 million$166 million
2019$245 million$53 million$192 million
2020$259 million$296 million-$37 million
2021$338 million$328 million$9 million
2022$428 million$657 million-$229 million
2023$716 million$430 million$286 million
2024$981 million$430 million$551 million

What they sell each other

What China sells to Guyana

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

  1. Bulldozers and excavators$106 million · 10.8%
    22 thousand tonnes · China’s destinations
  2. Trucks$82 million · 8.4%
    24 thousand tonnes · China’s destinations
  3. Steel structures$22 million · 2.3%
    12 thousand tonnes
  4. 3 thousand tonnes
  5. 6 thousand tonnes
  6. Steel bars$20 million · 2%
    26 thousand tonnes
  7. Special-purpose vehicles$19 million · 1.9%
    4 thousand tonnes
  8. New tires$17 million · 1.7%
    6 thousand tonnes · China’s destinations
  9. Lamps and light fittings$14 million · 1.4%
    6 thousand tonnes
  10. 3 thousand tonnes

What Guyana sells to China

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

  1. Crude petroleum$278 million · 64.7%
    453 thousand tonnes · Guyana’s destinations
  2. Gold$115 million · 26.7%
    2 tonnes · China’s sources
  3. Manganese ore$17 million · 4%
    130 thousand tonnes · China’s sources
  4. Logs$7 million · 1.6%
    28 thousand tonnes · China’s sources
  5. Bauxite (aluminum ore)$5 million · 1.2%
    94 thousand tonnes · China’s sources
  6. Frozen fish$3 million · 0.7%
    2 thousand tonnes
  7. Hoopwood, poles and wooden stakes$2 million · 0.42%
    14 thousand tonnes
  8. Shaped wood and parquet strips$785 thousand · 0.18%
    7 thousand tonnes
  9. Shipping containers$680 thousand · 0.16%
    299 tonnes
  10. Copper scrap$532 thousand · 0.12%
    70 tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Shanghai to Georgetown.

The estimated sea route between Shanghai and Georgetown is 10,329 nautical miles (19,128 km) long: ≈ 24–30.5 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Panama Canal.

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$1.3 billion · 90.9%
  2. Air$129 million · 9.1%

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

How much each matters to the other

Guyana was China’s 132nd largest trading partner (0% of its trade), and China was Guyana’s 6th (5%).

Guyana in China’s trade
0%
Guyana’s rank among China’s partners
132nd
China in Guyana’s trade
4.7%
China’s rank among Guyana’s partners
6th

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Sources and methodology

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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.