Foreign trade as a share of GDP rose 0.724% to 46.4% in Ivory Coast in 2019, according to the National Statistical Office.
Historically, foreign trade as a share of GDP in Ivory Coast reached an all time high of 95.1% in 2006 and an all time low of 46.1% in 2018. When compared to Ivory Coast's main peers, foreign trade as a share of GDP in Burkina Faso amounted to 56.7%, 76.2% in Guinea, 127% in Liberia and 58.0% in Mali in 2019.
Ivory Coast has been ranked 128th within the group of 150 countries we follow in terms of foreign trade as a share of GDP, 73 places below the position seen 10 years ago.
| Foreign Trade (As % of GDP) | Unit | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
| Algeria | % | 59.7% | 55.9% | 55.3% | 58.1% | 51.8% | ||||||||||||||||
| Burkina Faso | % | 59.1% | 57.9% | 59.3% | 60.6% | 58.7% | ... | ... | ||||||||||||||
| Ghana | % | 76.5% | 67.9% | 70.5% | 68.0% | 76.8% | ||||||||||||||||
| Guinea | % | 72.4% | 112% | 101% | 89.0% | 78.4% | ||||||||||||||||
| Ivory Coast | % | 52.7% | 47.5% | 48.5% | 46.1% | 46.4% | ||||||||||||||||
| Liberia | % | 126% | 122% | 123% | 120% | 127% | ... | |||||||||||||||
| Mali | % | 63.6% | 63.8% | 58.1% | 60.1% | 63.7% | ||||||||||||||||
| Mauritania | % | 77.3% | 73.2% | 78.8% | 89.1% | 96.2% | ||||||||||||||||
| Niger | % | 44.7% | 36.5% | 39.6% | 38.1% | 37.7% | ||||||||||||||||
| Senegal | % | 58.1% | 54.1% | 57.7% | 61.8% | 64.2% | ||||||||||||||||
| Sierra Leone | % | 66.8% | 79.4% | 74.5% | 56.7% | 56.2% |
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