Botswana: Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies in Europe & Central Asia (% of total merchandise exports)

Key figures

What the numbers say

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 0.03 percentage points in 2003 and the biggest yearly fall was 0.02 percentage points in 2004. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

How it compares

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Closest to Botswana in the 2021 ranking

• French Polynesia — 2nd of 2: 0.000303%

What this measures

Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies in Europe and Central Asia are the sum of merchandise exports from the reporting economy to low- and middle-income economies in the Europe and Central Asia region according to World Bank classification of economies. Data are as a percentage of total merchandise exports by the economy. Data are computed only if at least half of the economies in the partner country group had non-missing data.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.

All 16 values

Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies in Europe & Central Asia (% of total merchandise exports) in nearby economies

• Angola — 0.03% (2023)
• Benin — 0.96% (2023)
• Burkina Faso — 0.26% (2023)
• Cabo Verde — 0.00223% (2023)
• Cameroon — 1.31% (2023)
• Central African Republic — 0.79% (2023)
• Chad

More private sector & trade data for Botswana

• Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 57.78% (2025)
• Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$6.4 billion (2025)
• Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$5.12 billion (2025)
• Insurance and financial services (% of commercial service imports) — 0.57% (2025)
• Computer, communications and other services (% of commercial service imports) — 64.52% (2025)
• Commercial service imports (current US$) — US$1.3 billion (2025)
• Transport services (% of commercial service imports) — 25.54% (2025)
• Travel services (% of commercial service imports) — 9.37% (2025)
• Insurance and financial services (% of commercial service exports)

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Questions people ask

What is Botswana's merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies in Europe & Central Asia (% of total merchandise exports)?

0.00131% in 2021, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 2002?

It is down 0.0000531 percentage points from 0.00136% in 2002. The highest value was 0.04% in 2003 and the lowest 0.00039% in 2005.

Where does this data come from?

The World Bank's World Development Indicators, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Staff estimates, World Bank (WB); Direction of Trade database, International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator TX.VAL.MRCH.R2.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Staff estimates, World Bank (WB); Direction of Trade database, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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