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Trade between Côte d'Ivoire and Germany

In 2024, Côte d'Ivoire exported $1 billion to Germany and imported $440 million. Côte d'Ivoire ran a surplus of $567 million with Germany, compared with a surplus of $387 million in 2019. Germany was Côte d'Ivoire’s 9th largest trading partner (3% of its trade), and Côte d'Ivoire was Germany’s 79th (0.1%).

Summary

Côte d'Ivoire → Germany
$1billion
Germany → Côte d'Ivoire
$440million
Côte d'Ivoire’s balance
$567million

Balance

Côte d'Ivoire’s trade balance with Germany

Trade between Côte d'Ivoire and Germany grew 2.8-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 1
  • Imports 0.4
  • Balance +0.6

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$371 million$142 million$229 million
1996$370 million$167 million$203 million
1997$334 million$129 million$204 million
1998$402 million$154 million$248 million
1999$366 million$140 million$226 million
2000$273 million$92 million$181 million
2001$222 million$94 million$128 million
2002$267 million$97 million$170 million
2003$362 million$106 million$257 million
2004$305 million$130 million$175 million
2005$351 million$111 million$240 million
2006$691 million$156 million$535 million
2007$948 million$185 million$763 million
2008$987 million$227 million$760 million
2009$1.2 billion$206 million$965 million
2010$844 million$224 million$620 million
2011$1.3 billion$188 million$1.1 billion
2012$1.2 billion$247 million$914 million
2013$1.2 billion$271 million$904 million
2014$945 million$351 million$594 million
2015$856 million$261 million$595 million
2016$806 million$284 million$522 million
2017$754 million$327 million$427 million
2018$898 million$330 million$568 million
2019$691 million$304 million$387 million
2020$482 million$329 million$153 million
2021$536 million$459 million$78 million
2022$658 million$436 million$223 million
2023$765 million$607 million$158 million
2024$1 billion$440 million$567 million

What they sell each other

What Côte d'Ivoire sells to Germany

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

  1. Cocoa beans$462 million · 45.8%
    91 thousand tonnes · Côte d'Ivoire’s destinations
  2. Cocoa butter$236 million · 23.4%
    32 thousand tonnes
  3. Natural rubber$120 million · 11.9%
    84 thousand tonnes · Côte d'Ivoire’s destinations
  4. 9 thousand tonnes
  5. Crude petroleum$54 million · 5.4%
    144 thousand tonnes · Germany’s sources
  6. Cocoa paste$21 million · 2%
    6 thousand tonnes
  7. 4 thousand tonnes
  8. Chocolate$9 million · 0.87%
    1 thousand tonnes · Germany’s sources
  9. Refined petroleum$8 million · 0.84%
    8 thousand tonnes · Côte d'Ivoire’s destinations
  10. Bananas$6 million · 0.58%
    6 thousand tonnes

What Germany sells to Côte d'Ivoire

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

  1. Airplanes and helicopters$46 million · 10.4%
    10 tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  2. Cars$26 million · 5.9%
    1 thousand tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  3. Wheat$19 million · 4.3%
    75 thousand tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  4. Spirits$16 million · 3.7%
    4 thousand tonnes
  5. Edible offal$16 million · 3.5%
    22 thousand tonnes
  6. Kraft paper and paperboard$15 million · 3.3%
    15 thousand tonnes
  7. Steam turbines$12 million · 2.7%
    259 tonnes
  8. Copper wire$9 million · 2.1%
    978 tonnes
  9. 324 tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  10. 210 tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Abidjan to Hamburg.

The estimated sea route between Abidjan and Hamburg is 4,122 nautical miles (7,634 km) long: ≈ 9.5–12.5 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 · 93.3%
  2. Air$98 million · 6.7%

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

How much each matters to the other

Germany was Côte d'Ivoire’s 9th largest trading partner (3% of its trade), and Côte d'Ivoire was Germany’s 79th (0.1%).

Germany in Côte d'Ivoire’s trade
3.3%
Germany’s rank among Côte d'Ivoire’s partners
9th
Côte d'Ivoire in Germany’s trade
0.1%
Côte d'Ivoire’s rank among Germany’s partners
79th

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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.