Niger Trade Balance in Goods and Services: External Balance and Trade Openness

This statistical profile documents Niger's trade balance, export-to-import ratio and the contribution of international trade to GDP.

Exports of goods and services from Niger totaled $3.41 billion in 2025, compared with imports of $3.93 billion. The resulting external balance was -$515.6 million, or -2.4% of GDP.

Trade in goods and services represented 50.0% of GDP in 2024, up by 12.9 percentage points over five years. Based on comparable data for 2024, Niger ranked 151st of 192 economies by trade as a share of GDP and 97th of 194 by the external balance as a share of GDP.

Niger 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).
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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.