Trade Profiles
2021 Trade in commercial services
Transport
Travel Other commercial services
Industrial property
Merchandise trade Agricultural products Nonagricultural products
Ghana
Ghana
GDP (million current US$, 2020) GDP per capita (US$, 2018-2020) Current account balance (% GDP, 2020) Trade per capita (US$, 2018-2020) Trade (% GDP, 2018-2020)
68 418 2 220 -3.3 771 34.7
Rank in world trade, 2020 Merchandise excluding intra-EU trade Commercial services excluding intra-EU trade
Exports
75 52 60 37
Imports
87 63 53 35
MERCHANDISE TRADE Value
Million US$ Merchandise exports, f.o.b. Merchandise imports, c.i.f.
Annual percentage change
2020 14 472 12 429 2020 0.08
Share in world total exports (%)
2010-2020 6 1
2019 5 2
2020 -8 -7 2020 0.07
Share in world total imports (%)
Breakdown in economy's total exports
Breakdown in economy's total imports
By main commodity group, % (2019)
By main commodity group, % (2019)
Agricultural products: 24.7
Fuels and mining products: 37.2
Agricultural products: 16.4
Fuels and mining products: 3.4
Manufactures: 5.6
Other: 32.5
Manufactures: 57.8
Other: 22.5
By main destination, % (2019)
By main origin, % (2019)
China: 16.7
European Union: 15.2
Switzerland: 14.7
India: 14.2
South Africa: 11.8
Other: 27.4
European Union: 18.6 United States of America: 9.4 India: 5.6
China: 18.2 United Kingdom: 6.6 Other: 41.7
Agricultural Products Value
Top exported products (Million US$) HS1801 HS1803 HS1804 HS0801 HS1511
2019 . 1 852 410 337 246 109
Cocoa beans, whole or broken Cocoa paste Cocoa butter, fat and oil Coconuts, Brazil nuts, cashew nuts Palm oil and its fractions
Value
Top imported products (Million US$) HS1006 HS1001 HS1701 HS1511 HS1104
2019
Rice Wheat and meslin Cane or beet sugar Palm oil and its fractions Cereal grains otherwise worked
375 140 139 137 122
Share in economy's trade in agricultural products Exports 0%
20%
40%
Imports 60%
0%
HS1801
HS1006
HS1803
HS1001
HS1804
HS1701
HS0801
HS1511
HS1511
HS1104
10%
20%
30%
Million US$ Exports Imports
Value
2019 3 499 1 703
Annual percentage change
2010-2019 13 5
2018 31 3
2019 -18 -22
Non-Agricultural Products Value
Top exported products (Million US$) HS7108 HS2709 HS2602 HS1604 HS2843
2019
Gold Petroleum oils, crude Manganese ores and concentrates Prepared or preserved fish Colloidal precious metals
6 199 5 252 350 146 121
Value
Top imported products (Million US$) HS8703 HS8704 HS2523 HS2710 HS4406
2019
Motor cars for transport of persons Motor vehicles for goods transport Portland cement, aluminous cement Petroleum oils, other than crude Railway or tramway sleepers of wood
882 442 320 236 218
Share in economy's trade in non-agricultural products Exports 0%
146
Imports 50%
0%
HS7108
HS8703
HS2709
HS8704
HS2602
HS2523
HS1604
HS2710
HS2843
HS4406
5%
10%
15%
Million US$ Exports Imports
Value
2019 13 269 8 736
Annual percentage change
2010-2019 14 3
2018 16 -9
2019 3 -10
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Ghana TRADE IN COMMERCIAL SERVICES Value
Million US$ Commercial services exports Commercial services imports
Annual percentage change
2020
2010-2020
8 058 10 155 2020 0.16
Share in world total exports (%) Breakdown in economy's total exports
2019
2020
30 22
-18 -7
20 15
2020 0.22
Share in world total imports (%) Breakdown in economy's total imports
By main services item, % (2019)
By main services item, % (2019)
Transport: 5.1 Other commercial services: 74.9
Travel: 14.4 Goods-related services: 5.5
Transport: 21.5 Other commercial services: 72.6
By main destination
Travel: 3 Goods-related services: 2.9
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 Ghana
300
World
200 100 0
2010
2013
2016
Value
Million US$ Exports Imports
2019 501 2 354
Exports By sea (2019) By air (2019) By other (2019)
2020
Transport exports (Index 2010=100)
Value 369 125 7
2010-2019 4 8
Share (%)
Annual percentage change 2018 -4 0
Imports By sea (2019) By air (2019) By other (2019)
73.7 25.0 1.3
2019 11 13
Value
Share (%)
1 115 1 220 19
47.4 51.8 0.8
Travel Ghana
300
World
Value
Million US$ Exports Imports
200 100 0
2010
2013
2016
2019 1 425 328
2010-2019 10 -6
Annual percentage change 2018 11 -35
2019 51 -27
2020
Travel exports (Index 2010=100)
Other Commercial Services and Goods-related Services Million US$
Exports of OCS by main item (2019) 4.1 3.0 5.8
Value
2019
Other commercial services Exports 7 396 Imports 7 954
Other business services Construction Personal & cultural 87.2
2010-2019 40 30
2019
Goods-related services Exports Imports
Other
Annual percentage change
2010-2019
547 313
na na
2018
2019
8 8
33 29
2018
2019
na na
-7 22
INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY Patent applications, 2018 Residents
13
Non-residents
39
Trademark applications, 2018 Total
52
World Trade Organization – Trade Profiles 2021
Residents
833
Non-residents
2 591
Industrial design applications, 2018 Total
3 424
Residents
796
Non-residents
35
Total
831
147