Trade Profiles
2021 Trade in commercial services
Transport
Travel Other commercial services
Industrial property
Merchandise trade Agricultural products Nonagricultural products
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso
GDP (million current US$, 2020) GDP per capita (US$, 2018-2020) Current account balance (% GDP, 2020) Trade per capita (US$, 2018-2020) Trade (% GDP, 2018-2020)
16 541 795 -3.7 238 29.9
Rank in world trade, 2020 Merchandise excluding intra-EU trade Commercial services excluding intra-EU trade
Exports
113 89 140 114
Imports
132 106 112 86
MERCHANDISE TRADE Value
Million US$ Merchandise exports, f.o.b. Merchandise imports, c.i.f. Share in world total exports (%)
Annual percentage change
2020 4 372 4 117
2010-2020 11 7
2019 0 0
2020 0.02
Share in world total imports (%)
2020 35 -4 2020 0.02
Breakdown in economy's total exports
Breakdown in economy's total imports
By main commodity group, % (2019)
By main commodity group, % (2019)
Agricultural products: 20
Fuels and mining products: 5.3
Agricultural products: 9.1
Fuels and mining products: 23.3
Manufactures: 4
Other: 70.7
Manufactures: 48.9
Other: 18.8
By main destination, % (2019)
By main origin, % (2019)
Switzerland: 54.9
India: 17.6
Singapore: 6.5
European Union: 5.8
Côte d'Ivoire: 5.5
Other: 9.8
European Union: 23 Côte d'Ivoire: 10.6 Ghana: 6.9
China: 12.2 Russian Federation: 7.9 Other: 39.4
Agricultural Products Value
Top exported products (Million US$) HS5201 HS1207 HS0801 HS1515 HS0804
2019 . 352 137 96 32 23
Cotton, not carded or combed Other oil seeds, oleaginous fruits Coconuts, Brazil nuts, cashew nuts Other fixed vegetable fats and oils Dates, figs, pineapples, avocados
Value
Top imported products (Million US$) HS1006 HS2403 HS1001 HS1701 HS2101
2019
Rice Other manufactured tobacco Wheat and meslin Cane or beet sugar Extracts, essences and concentrates
118 50 40 31 22
Share in economy's trade in agricultural products Exports 0%
20%
40%
Imports 60%
0%
HS5201
HS1006
HS1207
HS2403
HS0801
HS1001
HS1515
HS1701
HS0804
HS2101
10%
20%
30%
Million US$ Exports Imports
Value
2019 677 449
Annual percentage change
2010-2019 7 4
2018 9 18
2019 -15 -15
Non-Agricultural Products Value
Top exported products (Million US$) HS7108 HS7901 HS8802 HS2710 HS7214
2019
Gold Unwrought zinc Other aircraft Petroleum oils, other than crude Other iron bar not further worked
2 270 155 28 20 10
Value
Top imported products (Million US$) HS2710 HS3004 HS8703 HS2716 HS8704
2019
Petroleum oils, other than crude Medicaments in measured doses Motor cars for transport of persons Electrical energy Motor vehicles for goods transport
1 011 155 111 107 98
Share in economy's trade in non-agricultural products Exports 0%
60
50%
Imports 100%
0%
HS7108
HS2710
HS7901
HS3004
HS8802
HS8703
HS2710
HS2716
HS7214
HS8704
10%
20%
30%
Million US$ Exports Imports
Value
2019 2 586 3 804
Annual percentage change
2010-2019 12 9
2018 21 15
2019 4 1
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Burkina Faso TRADE IN COMMERCIAL SERVICES Value
Million US$ Commercial services exports Commercial services imports
Annual percentage change
2020
2010-2020
413 1 572 2020 0.01
Share in world total exports (%) Breakdown in economy's total exports
2019
2020
-3 -3
-16 8
5 7
2020 0.03
Share in world total imports (%) Breakdown in economy's total imports
By main services item, % (2019)
By main services item, % (2019)
Transport: 15.9 Other commercial services: 60.1
Travel: 23.7 Goods-related services: 0.4
Transport: 47.3 Other commercial services: 39.6
By main destination
Travel: 7.9 Goods-related services: 5.3
By main origin
Value
FATS sales Inward (million US$) Outward (million US$)
Annual percentage change
2020 na na
2010-2020 na na
2019 na na
2020 na na
Transport Burkina Faso
200
World
100 0
2010
2013
2016
Value
Million US$ Exports Imports
2019 78 688
Exports By sea (2018) By air (2019) By other (2019)
2020
Transport exports (Index 2010=100)
Value
2010-2019 7 7
Share (%)
0 43 31
Annual percentage change 2018 5 10
Imports By sea (2019) By air (2019) By other (2019)
0.0 55.2 39.7
2019 -2 -2
Value
Share (%)
456 134 87
66.3 19.5 12.6
Travel Burkina Faso
300
World
Value
Million US$ Exports Imports (2019)
200 100 0
2010
2013
2016
2020 80 115
2010-2020 1 6
Annual percentage change 2019 -4 -4
2020 -31 na
2020
Travel exports (Index 2010=100)
Other Commercial Services and Goods-related Services Million US$
Exports of OCS by main item (2019)
Other commercial services Exports Imports
Construction 13.4 37.5
19.3
Financial services
2019
2010-2019
295 576
Goods-related services Exports Imports
Other
Annual percentage change
8 4
2019
ICTs 29.7
Value
2010-2019
2 77
15 57
2018
2019
16 9
-3 -3
2018
2019
16 35
-3 -3
INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY Patent applications Residents
na
Trademark applications
Non-residents
na
Total
na
World Trade Organization – Trade Profiles 2021
Residents
na
Industrial design applications
Non-residents
na
Total
na
Residents
na
Non-residents
na
Total
na
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