São Tomé and Principe: Fuel exports (% of merchandise exports)

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How it compares

See how every economy compares in the full ranking.

Closest to São Tomé and Principe in the 2022 ranking

• Israel — 1st of 5: 5.32%
• Rwanda — 2nd of 5: 0.06%
• French Polynesia — 3rd of 5: 0.03%
• Nepal — 5th of 5: 0.000422%

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 10 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 São Tomé and Principe

• Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$183 million (2025)
• Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$38 million (2025)
• Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 22.52% (2025)
• Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) — 50.15% (2023)
• Merchandise imports by the reporting economy, residual (% of total merchandise imports) — 0% (2023)
• Merchandise imports by the reporting economy (current US$) — US$181.65 million (2023)
• Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports) — 96.73% (2023)
• Merchandise exports by the reporting economy, residual (% of total merchandise exports)

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Questions people ask

What is São Tomé and Principe's fuel exports (% of merchandise exports)?

0.00915% in 2022, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 2003?

It is up 0.00384 percentage points from 0.00531% in 2003. The highest value was 0.75% in 2012 and the lowest 0% in 2007.

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); Comtrade database, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Statistics Division; World Integrated Trade Solution system (WITS), World Bank (WB).

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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