Equatorial Guinea's imports of goods and services (annual % growth) was 0.88% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 16.34 percentage points from -15.45% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 0.88% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | -22.07% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | -15.45% | 2015 |
| Highest | 40.95% | 2007 |
| Lowest | -27.84% | 2023 |
| Average since 2016 | -2.12% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 16.43% | 2006 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Equatorial Guinea's imports of goods and services (annual % growth) fell 32.17 percentage points on 2024 (from 33.05% to 0.88%).
Across the 18 yearly changes before that (2007 to 2024), the average change was +0.92 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 31.22 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.1 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 60.89 percentage points in 2024 and the biggest yearly fall was 48.9 percentage points in 2011. 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 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 6% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2025, Equatorial Guinea had the 104th 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Equatorial Guinea | 0.88% | 2025 |
| World | 5.65% | 2025 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 4.54% | 2025 |
Closest to Equatorial Guinea in the 2025 ranking
- Mozambique — 101st of 128: 1.35%
- Hungary — 102nd of 128: 1.21%
- South Africa — 103rd of 128: 1.14%
- Kenya — 105th of 128: 0.88%
- Benin — 106th of 128: 0.87%
- Belgium — 107th of 128: 0.14%
What this measures
Imports of goods includes change in the economic ownership of goods from non-residents to residents of the compiling economy, irrespective of physical movement of goods across national borders. Imports of services includes services provided by non-residents to 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 20 values
| Year | Imports of goods and services (annual % growth) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.8838 |
| 2024 | 33.05 |
| 2023 | -27.84 |
| 2022 | 11.24 |
| 2021 | -3.44 |
| 2020 | -22.07 |
| 2019 | -11.24 |
| 2018 | 6.2 |
| 2017 | 8.33 |
| 2016 | -16.29 |
| 2015 |
Imports of goods and services (annual % growth) in nearby economies
- Angola — 2.7% (2024)
- Benin — 0.87% (2025)
- Botswana — -18.99% (2025)
- Burkina Faso — 7.42% (2025)
- Cabo Verde — 3.2% (2025)
- Cameroon — 11.09% (2025)
- Central African Republic — 14.4% (2025)
- Chad — 11.77% (2025)
- Comoros — 3.41% (2025)
- Congo, Dem. Rep.
More economic policy & debt data for Equatorial Guinea
- GDP (current US$) — US$12.82 billion (2025)
- GDP (current LCU) — 7.46 trillion (2025)
- GDP per capita (current US$) — US$6,615 (2025)
- GDP per capita (current LCU) — 3.85 million (2025)
- GNI (current US$) — US$11.61 billion (2025)
- GNI (current LCU) — 6.76 trillion (2025)
- GNI per capita (current LCU) — 3.49 million (2025)
- Net primary income (net income from abroad) (current US$) — −US$1.21 billion (2025)
- Net primary income (net income from abroad) (current LCU) — -705.58 billion (2025)
- Adjusted savings, education expenditure (% of GNI)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Equatorial Guinea's imports of goods and services (annual % growth)?
- 0.88% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 2006?
- It is down 15.54 percentage points from 16.43% in 2006. The highest value was 40.95% in 2007 and the lowest -27.84% in 2023.
- How does Equatorial Guinea rank?
- 104th highest of 128 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in imports of goods and services (annual % growth) unusual for Equatorial Guinea?
- In 2025, Equatorial Guinea's imports of goods and services (annual % growth) fell 32.17 percentage points on 2024 (from 33.05% to 0.88%). Across the 18 yearly changes before that (2007 to 2024), the average change was +0.92 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 31.22 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.1 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NE.IMP.GNFS.KD.ZG, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Country official statistics, National Statistical Offices (NSOs); National Accounts data files, Central Banks; 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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