Niger: Fuel exports (% of merchandise exports)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2024, Niger's fuel exports (% of merchandise exports) rose 69.59 percentage points on 2023 (from 18.4% to 87.99%).

Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1978 to 2023), the average change was +0.61 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 5.33 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 12.9 standard deviations above that average, so it was unusually large compared with the rest of the record.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 69.59 percentage points in 2024 and the biggest yearly fall was 10.41 percentage points in 2023. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2015 to 2024 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 30% 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 2024, Niger had the 4th highest value of the 35 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.

Closest to Niger in the 2024 ranking

• Iraq — 1st of 35: 99.03%
• Algeria — 2nd of 35: 93.14%
• Qatar — 4th of 35: 83.76%
• Samoa — 5th of 35: 33.26%
• Senegal — 6th of 35: 32.71%

What this measures

Fuels comprise the commodities in SITC (Rev. 3) section 3 (mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials). This indicator is expressed as a percentage of merchandise exports which is comprised of goods whose economic ownership is changed between a resident and a non-resident and that are not included in the following specific categories: goods under merchanting, non-monetary gold, and parts of travel, construction, and government goods and services n.i.e.

Limitations: Previous editions contained data based on the SITC revision 1. Data for earlier years in previous editions may differ because of the change in methodology. Concordance tables are available to convert data reported in one system to another.

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

All 49 values

Fuel exports (% of merchandise exports) in nearby economies

• Angola — 91.5% (2025)
• Benin — 0.00000515% (2024)
• Botswana — 0.67% (2023)
• Burkina Faso — 0.02% (2024)
• Burundi — 1.89% (2023)
• Cabo Verde — 0% (2023)
• Cameroon — 54.07% (2023)
• Central African Republic — 0.03% (2024)
• Comoros — 0.00485% (2023)
• Congo, Dem. Rep. — 1.8% (2024)

More private sector & trade data for Niger

• Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 21.25% (2025)
• Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$2.7 billion (2025)
• Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$1.9 billion (2025)
• Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) — 41.93% (2023)
• Merchandise imports by the reporting economy, residual (% of total merchandise imports) — 0% (2023)
• Merchandise imports by the reporting economy (current US$) — US$3.15 billion (2023)
• Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports) — 67.42% (2023)
• Merchandise exports by the reporting economy, residual (% of total merchandise exports) — 0% (2023)

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Questions people ask

What is Niger's fuel exports (% of merchandise exports)?

87.99% in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1962?

It is up 87.2 percentage points from 0.79% in 1962. The highest value was 87.99% in 2024 and the lowest 0.000143% in 1978.

How does Niger rank?

4th highest of 35 economies with data for 2024.

Is the latest change in fuel exports (% of merchandise exports) unusual for Niger?

In 2024, Niger's fuel exports (% of merchandise exports) rose 69.59 percentage points on 2023 (from 18.4% to 87.99%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1978 to 2023), the average change was +0.61 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 5.33 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 12.9 standard deviations above that average, so it was unusually large compared with the rest of the record.

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator TX.VAL.FUEL.ZS.UN, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Staff estimates, World Bank (WB); Comtrade database, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Statistics Division; World Integrated Trade Solution system (WITS), 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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