Ghana | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2009 - 2023

Exports structure from Ghana in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 45% (7.67 billion US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 23% (4.04 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 11.2% (1.89 billion US$): 18 - Cocoa and cocoa preparations
• 2.34% (395 million US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash
• 2.29% (387 million US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
• 1.71% (289 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 1.13% (191 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 1.11% (188 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 0.849% (143 million US$): 16 - Preparations of meat, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates
• 0.766% (129 million US$): 76 - Aluminum and articles thereof

What did Ghana export in 2023?

Ghana's Top Exports in 2023:

• 45% ($7.65 billion): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
• 23% ($3.98 billion): 2709 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude
• 6.56% ($1.1 billion): 1801 - Cocoa beans, whole or broken, raw or roasted
• 2.44% ($413 million): 1803 - Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted.
• 1.86% ($314 million): 2602 - Manganese ores and concentrates, including ferruginous manganese ores and concentrates with a manganese content of 20 % or more, calculated on the dry weight
• 1.54% ($261 million): 0801 - Coconuts, Brazil nuts and cashew nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled
• 1.39% ($234 million): 1804 - Cocoa butter, fat and oil
• 0.848% ($143 million): 1604 - Prepared or preserved fish; caviar and caviar substitutes prepared from fish eggs
• 0.701% ($118 million): 1515 - Fixed vegetable or microbial fats and oils n.e.s. in chapter 15 (including jojoba oil) and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
• 0.696% ($117 million): 7214 - Other bars and rods of iron or non-alloy steel, not further worked than forged, hot-rolled, hot-drawn or hot-extruded, but including those twisted after rolling

Imports structure to Ghana in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 32% (5.26 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 9.46% (1.55 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 7.39% (1.21 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 4.02% (660 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 3.66% (601 million US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 3.21% (527 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 2.85% (468 million US$): 38 - Miscellaneous chemical products
• 2.68% (439 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
• 2.22% (364 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
• 1.9% (311 million US$): 11 - Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten

What did Ghana import in 2023?

Ghana's Top Imports in 2023:

• 29% ($4.91 billion): 2710 - Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, not crude; preparations n.e.c. containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or oils from bituminous minerals; these being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils
• 3.35% ($550 million): 8703 - Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons (other than those of heading 87.02), including station wagons and racing cars
• 2.35% ($385 million): 8704 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods
• 2.11% ($346 million): 3808 - Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (for example, sulphur-treated bands, wicks and candles, and fly-papers)
• 2.08% ($341 million): 2523 - Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers
• 1.95% ($320 million): 8429 - Self-propelled bulldozers, angledozers, graders, levellers, scrapers, mechanical shovels, excavators, shovel loaders, tamping machines and road rollers
• 1.74% ($286 million): 1006 - Rice
• 1.54% ($253 million): 1104 - Cereal grains otherwise worked (for example, hulled, rolled, flaked, pearled, sliced or kibbled), except rice of heading 10.06; germ of cereals, whole, rolled, flaked or ground
• 1.41% ($231 million): 7210 - Flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, of a width of 600 mm or more, clad, plated or coated
• 1.34% ($220 million): 3901 - Polymers of ethylene, in primary forms