Trade Profiles
2021 Trade in commercial services
Transport
Travel Other commercial services
Industrial property
Merchandise trade Agricultural products Nonagricultural products
Cameroon
Cameroon
GDP (million current US$, 2020) GDP per capita (US$, 2018-2020) Current account balance (% GDP, 2020) Trade per capita (US$, 2017-2019) Trade (% GDP, 2017-2019)
39 020 1 502 -5.3 303 20.4
Rank in world trade, 2020 Merchandise excluding intra-EU trade Commercial services excluding intra-EU trade
Exports
121 97 103 77
Imports
121 96 101 75
MERCHANDISE TRADE Value
Million US$ Merchandise exports, f.o.b. Merchandise imports, c.i.f.
Annual percentage change
2020 3 385 5 364
2010-2020 -1 0
2020 0.02
Share in world total imports (%)
Share in world total exports (%)
2019 7 0
2020 -17 -5 2020 0.03
Breakdown in economy's total exports
Breakdown in economy's total imports
By main commodity group, % (2019)
By main commodity group, % (2019)
Agricultural products: 34
Fuels and mining products: 58.9
Agricultural products: 22.9
Fuels and mining products: 4.2
Manufactures: 6.4
Other: 0.8
Manufactures: 71.9
Other: 1
By main destination, % (2017)
By main origin, % (2017)
European Union: 54.1
China: 12.1
India: 6.9
European Union: 30.8
China: 17.2
Thailand: 5.7
Viet Nam: 3.1
Bangladesh: 2.5
Other: 21.4
Togo: 5.1
Nigeria: 4.9
Other: 36.3
Agricultural Products Value
Top exported products (Million US$) HS1801 HS5201 HS1803 HS0803 HS1804
2017 . 403 165 71 63 46
Cocoa beans, whole or broken Cotton, not carded or combed Cocoa paste Bananas, including plantains Cocoa butter, fat and oil
Value
Top imported products (Million US$) HS1006 HS1001 HS1701 HS1511 HS1107
2017
Rice Wheat and meslin Cane or beet sugar Palm oil and its fractions Malt, whether or not roasted
317 179 68 53 43
Share in economy's trade in agricultural products Exports 0%
Imports 50%
0%
HS1801
HS1006
HS5201
HS1001
HS1803
HS1701
HS0803
HS1511
HS1804
HS1107
20%
40%
Million US$ Exports Imports
Value
2017 880 1 006
Annual percentage change
2010-2017 -2 5
2016 -9 -13
2017 -21 23
Non-Agricultural Products Value
Top exported products (Million US$) HS2709 HS4407 HS4403 HS7601 HS2710
2017
Petroleum oils, crude Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise Wood in the rough Unwrought aluminium Petroleum oils, other than crude
1 284 262 196 130 111
Value
Top imported products (Million US$) HS2710 HS2709 HS0303 HS3004 HS2523
2017
Petroleum oils, other than crude Petroleum oils, crude Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillet Medicaments in measured doses Portland cement, aluminous cement
434 221 197 195 190
Share in economy's trade in non-agricultural products Exports 0%
68
20%
40%
Imports 60%
0%
HS2709
HS2710
HS4407
HS2709
HS4403
HS0303
HS7601
HS3004
HS2710
HS2523
5%
10%
15%
Million US$ Exports Imports
Value
2017 2 384 4 178
Annual percentage change
2010-2017 -3 -1
2016 -64 -20
2017 134 2
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Cameroon TRADE IN COMMERCIAL SERVICES Value
Million US$ Commercial services exports Commercial services imports
Annual percentage change
2020
2010-2020
1 552 2 241 2020 0.03
Share in world total exports (%) Breakdown in economy's total exports
2019
2020
5 5
-26 -19
2 3
2020 0.05
Share in world total imports (%) Breakdown in economy's total imports
By main services item, % (2019)
By main services item, % (2019)
Transport: 32 Other commercial services: 36.8
Travel: 31.1 Goods-related services: 0.1
Transport: 38.4 Other commercial services: 34.6
By main destination
Travel: 27 Goods-related services: 0
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 Cameroon
200
World
100 0
2010
2013
2016
Value
Million US$ Exports Imports
2019 674 1 064
Exports By sea (2019) By air (2019) By other (2019)
2020
Transport exports (Index 2010=100)
Value
2010-2019 4 6
Share (%)
124 61 469
Annual percentage change 2018 12 17
Imports By sea (2019) By air (2019) By other (2019)
18.3 9.1 69.5
2019 1 8
Value
Share (%)
772 249 41
72.6 23.4 3.9
Travel Cameroon
500 400 300 200 100 0
World
Value
Million US$ Exports Imports
2010
2013
2016
2019 653 749
2010-2019 17 17
Annual percentage change 2018 11 8
2019 13 9
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
Other business services ICTs
13.9 19.5 48.6 18.0
Value
Financial services
2019
2010-2019
Other
2018
2019
4 7
2 -1
2010-2019
2018
2019
-39 na
na na
8 -1
774 958
6 1
2019
Goods-related services Exports Imports
Annual percentage change
2 0
INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY Patent applications Residents
na
Trademark applications
Non-residents
na
Total
na
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Residents
na
Industrial design applications
Non-residents
na
Total
na
Residents
na
Non-residents
na
Total
na
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