Chad's exports of goods and services (annual % growth) was 13.82% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 28.83 percentage points from 42.65% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 13.82% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 0.06% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 42.65% | 2015 |
| Highest | 143.89% | 1983 |
| Lowest | -46.02% | 1982 |
| Average since 2016 | 2.58% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 1.68% | 1961 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Chad's exports of goods and services (annual % growth) rose 12.77 percentage points on 2024 (from 1.05% to 13.82%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1992 to 2024), the average change was +4.31 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 32.77 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.3 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 189.92 percentage points in 1983 and the biggest yearly fall was 131.89 percentage points in 1984. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 the straight-line trend is upward, about 1.54 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 30% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2025, Chad had the 16th highest value of the 128 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Chad | 13.82% | 2025 |
| World | 4.88% | 2025 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 4.59% | 2025 |
| Low income | 13.93% | 2025 |
Closest to Chad in the 2025 ranking
- Viet Nam — 12th of 128: 16.27%
- Botswana — 13th of 128: 14.79%
- Cambodia — 14th of 128: 14.6%
- Côte d'Ivoire — 16th of 128: 12.32%
- Namibia — 17th of 128: 11.81%
- Hong Kong SAR, China — 18th of 128: 11.18%
What this measures
Exports of goods includes changes in the economic ownership of goods from residents of the compiling economy to non-residents, irrespective of physical movement of goods across national borders. Exports of services includes services provided by residents to non-residents. This indicator denotes the percentage change over each previous year of the constant price (base year 2015) series in United States dollars.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 63 values
| Year | Exports of goods and services (annual % growth) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 13.82 |
| 2024 | 1.05 |
| 2023 | 6.17 |
| 2022 | 5.87 |
| 2021 | -3.66 |
| 2020 | 0.0649 |
| 2019 | 13.24 |
| 2018 | 7.02 |
| 2017 | -3.56 |
| 2016 | -14.23 |
| 2015 |
Exports of goods and services (annual % growth) in nearby economies
- Angola — 1.51% (2024)
- Benin — -0.62% (2025)
- Botswana — 14.79% (2025)
- Burkina Faso — 7.44% (2025)
- Cabo Verde — 4.12% (2025)
- Cameroon — -7.68% (2025)
- Central African Republic — 38.8% (2025)
- Comoros — 6.34% (2025)
- Congo, Dem. Rep. — 7.39% (2025)
- Congo, Rep.
More economic policy & debt data for Chad
- Exports of goods and services (current US$) — US$6.32 billion (2025)
- Exports of goods and services (current LCU) — 3.68 trillion (2025)
- Exports of goods and services (% of GDP) — 29.41% (2025)
- Imports of goods and services (current US$) — US$3.59 billion (2025)
- Imports of goods and services (current LCU) — 2.09 trillion (2025)
- Imports of goods and services (% of GDP) — 16.72% (2025)
- External balance on goods and services (current US$) — US$2.73 billion (2025)
- External balance on goods and services (current LCU) — 1.59 trillion (2025)
- External balance on goods and services (% of GDP) — 12.7% (2025)
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Questions people ask
- What is Chad's exports of goods and services (annual % growth)?
- 13.82% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1961?
- It is up 12.14 percentage points from 1.68% in 1961. The highest value was 143.89% in 1983 and the lowest -46.02% in 1982.
- How does Chad rank?
- 16th highest of 128 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in exports of goods and services (annual % growth) unusual for Chad?
- In 2025, Chad's exports of goods and services (annual % growth) rose 12.77 percentage points on 2024 (from 1.05% to 13.82%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1992 to 2024), the average change was +4.31 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 32.77 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.3 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NE.EXP.GNFS.KD.ZG, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) 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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