Congo, Rep. Trade Balance in Goods and Services: External Balance and Trade Openness

The report examines Congo, Rep.'s trade surplus or deficit through exports, imports, external balance and trade openness.

Exports of goods and services from Congo, Rep. totaled $7.83 billion in 2025, compared with imports of $7.12 billion. The resulting external balance was $713.6 million, or 4.4% of GDP.

Trade in goods and services represented 93.2% of GDP in 2024, up by 1.6 percentage points over five years. Based on comparable data for 2024, Congo, Rep. ranked 82nd of 192 economies by trade as a share of GDP and 47th of 194 by the external balance as a share of GDP.

Congo, Rep. Trade Balance by Year

Data source: World Bank, World Development Indicators — External balance on goods and services, current US$ (NE.RSB.GNFS.CD); External balance on goods and services, % of GDP (NE.RSB.GNFS.ZS); Exports of goods and services, current US$ (NE.EXP.GNFS.CD); Imports of goods and services, current US$ (NE.IMP.GNFS.CD); Trade, % of GDP (NE.TRD.GNFS.ZS).
License: CC BY-4.0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.

About the Indicators

External balance on goods and services, current US$. Exports minus imports of goods and services, in current U.S. dollars.

External balance on goods and services, % of GDP. Exports minus imports of goods and services, expressed as a share of GDP; positive values indicate a surplus, negative values a deficit.

Exports of goods and services, current US$. The total value of goods and services a country sells abroad, in current U.S. dollars.

Imports of goods and services, current US$. The total value of goods and services a country purchases from abroad, converted to current U.S. dollars.

Trade, % of GDP. The sum of exports and imports of goods and services, expressed as a share of GDP; a common measure of an economy’s trade openness.

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