Ghana | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2008 - 2019

Exports structure from Ghana in 2019 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 36% (6.19 billion US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 31% (5.31 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 16.1% (2.71 billion US$): 18 - Cocoa and cocoa preparations
• 2.35% (394 million US$): 26 - Ores, slag and ash
• 2.19% (367 million US$): 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
• 1.33% (224 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 1.14% (192 million US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 0.872% (146 million US$): 16 - Preparations of meat, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates
• 0.747% (125 million US$): 44 - Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal
• 0.734% (123 million US$): 28 - Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes

What did Ghana export in 2019?

Ghana's Top Exports in 2019:

• 36% ($6.19 billion): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
• 31% ($5.25 billion): 2709 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude
• 11% ($1.85 billion): 1801 - Cocoa beans, whole or broken, raw or roasted
• 2.44% ($409 million): 1803 - Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted.
• 2.08% ($349 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
• 2.01% ($337 million): 1804 - Cocoa butter, fat and oil
• 1.46% ($246 million): 0801 - Coconuts, Brazil nuts and cashew nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled
• 0.872% ($146 million): 1604 - Prepared or preserved fish; caviar and caviar substitutes prepared from fish eggs
• 0.722% ($121 million): 2843 - Colloidal precious metals; inorganic or organic compounds of precious metals, whether or not chemically defined; amalgams of precious metals.
• 0.648% ($108 million): 1511 - Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified

Imports structure to Ghana in 2019 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 16.2% (1.69 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 13% (1.36 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 6.56% (685 million US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 5% (522 million US$): 10 - Cereals
• 4.78% (499 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 3.74% (391 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
• 3.58% (373 million US$): 25 - Salt; sulfur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
• 3.44% (359 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 2.87% (299 million US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 2.84% (297 million US$): 44 - Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal

What did Ghana import in 2019?

Ghana's Top Imports in 2019:

• 8.44% ($881 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
• 4.23% ($441 million): 8704 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods
• 3.59% ($374 million): 1006 - Rice
• 3.06% ($319 million): 2523 - Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers
• 2.26% ($236 million): 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
• 2.08% ($217 million): 4406 - Railway or tramway sleepers (cross-ties) of wood.
• 1.94% ($203 million): 3004 - Medicaments (excluding goods of heading 30.02, 30.05 or 30.06) consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, put up in measured doses (including those in the form of transdermal administration systems) or in forms or packings for retail sale
• 1.93% ($202 million): 0303 - Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 03.04.
• 1.57% ($164 million): 3901 - Polymers of ethylene, in primary forms
• 1.47% ($154 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)