Number of product (exports) by country

Number of products (at SITC, Revision 3, 3-digit group level) exported by country or country grouping; this figure includes only those products that are greater than 100,000 dollars or more than 0.3 per cent of the country’s or country group’s total exports. The maximum number of products is 261.

Countries reporting
53
Highest
260 exports
South Africa
Lowest
7 exports
Comoros
Median
150 exports
Years covered
17
1995–2011
Data points
935

What the numbers show

Number of product (exports) is currently reported for 53 countries. The highest value is 260 exports in South Africa; the lowest is 7 exports in Comoros.

The median across all reporting countries is 150 exports, and the mean is 144.43 exports.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 37.

Over the past decade 30 countries rose and 22 fell. The largest increase was in Liberia (up 1,215.4%), and the largest decrease in Sao Tome and Principe (down 86.4%).

Number of product: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 South Africa 260 exports 2011 unchanged flat
2 Tanzania 254 exports 2011 up 6.7% rising
3 Morocco 243 exports 2011 down 2.0% rising
4 Egypt 238 exports 2011 up 3.9% rising
5 Kenya 237 exports 2011 up 13.9% flat
6 Mauritius 236 exports 2011 up 87.3% rising
7 Nigeria 232 exports 2011 down 7.9% rising
8 Mozambique 229 exports 2011 up 4.6% rising
9 Tunisia 225 exports 2011 up 14.8% rising
10 Namibia 223 exports 2011 down 10.1% rising
11 Ghana 218 exports 2011 down 8.8% rising
12 Djibouti 214 exports 2011 up 4.9% rising
12 Democratic Republic of Congo 214 exports 2011 up 15.7% rising
14 Uganda 213 exports 2011 up 129.0% rising
15 Zambia 211 exports 2011 down 11.7% rising
16 Senegal 206 exports 2011 down 13.4% rising
17 Zimbabwe 201 exports 2011 down 20.2% falling
18 Cameroon 191 exports 2011 down 17.0% rising
19 Eswatini 190 exports 2011 up 3.3% flat
20 Mauritania 187 exports 2011 up 29.0% rising
21 Mali 186 exports 2011 down 15.8% rising
22 Liberia 171 exports 2011 up 1,215.4% volatile
23 Madagascar 162 exports 2011 down 26.0% rising
24 Cote d'Ivoire 161 exports 2011 down 32.1% falling
25 Botswana 158 exports 2011 down 31.6% falling
26 Guinea 151 exports 2011 up 128.8% volatile
27 Gabon 150 exports 2011 up 80.7% rising
28 Benin 147 exports 2011 up 129.7% rising
29 Burkina Faso 143 exports 2011 down 33.8% rising
30 Sudan 136 exports 2011 up 100.0% rising
31 Equatorial Guinea 131 exports 2011 up 50.6% volatile
32 Sierra Leone 127 exports 2011 down 33.2% rising
33 Congo 126 exports 2011 up 90.9% flat
34 Togo 123 exports 2011 up 2.5% falling
35 Libya 116 exports 2011 up 73.1% rising
36 Ethiopia 115 exports 2011 down 12.2% volatile
36 Malawi 115 exports 2011 up 62.0% rising
38 Algeria 98 exports 2011 up 15.3% falling
38 Niger 98 exports 2011 down 56.4% rising
40 Rwanda 77 exports 2011 down 44.6% rising
41 Angola 72 exports 2011 up 80.0% rising
42 Seychelles 67 exports 2011 down 60.4% falling
43 Lesotho 63 exports 2011 up 65.8% volatile
44 Chad 53 exports 2011 up 103.8% volatile
45 Central African Republic 50 exports 2011 up 47.1% volatile
45 Burundi 50 exports 2011 down 59.3% volatile
45 Gambia 50 exports 2011 down 69.5% flat
48 Somalia 32 exports 2011 down 40.7% volatile
48 Cape Verde 32 exports 2011 up 166.7% volatile
50 Eritrea 30 exports 2011 up 3.4% rising
51 Guinea-Bissau 21 exports 2011 up 75.0% volatile
52 Sao Tome and Principe 15 exports 2011 down 86.4% volatile
53 Comoros 7 exports 2011 up 133.3% volatile

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Number of product (exports)
Unit
exports
Source
UNCTAD Statistical Office, also reported in the UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics, various issues (http://unctadstat.unctad.org/)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
55 places, 935 data points, 1995–2011
Last refreshed

Number of products (at SITC, Revision 3, 3-digit group level) exported by country or country grouping; this figure includes only those products that are greater than 100,000 dollars or more than 0.3 per cent of the country’s or country group’s total exports. The maximum number of products is 261.