Sierra Leone: Fuel exports (% of merchandise exports)

Key figures

Since 1972 it is down 1.56 percentage points from 1.7% in 1972. The World Bank has no value for 36 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

How it compares

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Closest to Sierra Leone in the 2018 ranking

• Sudan — 1st of 4: 14.3%
• Bangladesh — 2nd of 4: 1.1%
• Greenland — 4th of 4: 0.0000596%

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 11 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 Sierra Leone

• Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 45.91% (2025)
• Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$1.89 billion (2025)
• Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$1.53 billion (2025)
• Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports) — 13.74% (2023)
• Merchandise exports by the reporting economy, residual (% of total merchandise exports) — 0.00395% (2023)
• Merchandise exports by the reporting economy (current US$) — US$513.99 million (2023)
• Merchandise imports from economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise imports) — 10.91% (2023)
• Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports)

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Questions people ask

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

0.14% in 2018, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1972?

It is down 1.56 percentage points from 1.7% in 1972. The highest value was 5.87% in 1975 and the lowest 0% in 2015.

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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