São Tomé and Principe: Merchandise exports to economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise exports)

Key figures

Since 1983 it is down 0.09 percentage points from 0.11% in 1983. The World Bank has no value for 23 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

How it compares

See how every economy compares in the full ranking.

Closest to São Tomé and Principe in the 2022 ranking

• French Polynesia — 2nd of 2: 0.00281%

What this measures

Merchandise exports to economies in the Arab World are the sum of merchandise exports by the reporting economy to economies in the Arab World. Data are expressed 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 17 values

Merchandise exports to economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise exports) in nearby economies

• Angola — 3.1% (2023)
• Benin — 7.86% (2023)
• Botswana — 30.43% (2023)
• Burkina Faso — 8.68% (2023)
• Burundi — 26.41% (2023)
• Cabo Verde — 4.12% (2023)
• Cameroon — 0.81% (2023)
• Central African Republic

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 merchandise exports to economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise exports)?

0.02% in 2022, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1983?

It is down 0.09 percentage points from 0.11% in 1983. The highest value was 1.72% in 1994 and the lowest 0.00705% in 2013.

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.AL.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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