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$30.6BCURRENT US$
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43.9%CURRENT US$
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$2.55BCURRENT US$
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3.06%CURRENT US$
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$3,020CURRENT US$
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13.8%CURRENT US$
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$1,107CURRENT US$
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In N/A, Papua New Guinea did not export any services to Lesotho.

Lesotho-Papua New Guinea In N/A, Lesotho did not export any products to Papua New Guinea.

In N/A, Lesotho did not export any services to Papua New Guinea.

Comparison In 2022,  Papua New Guinea ranked 125 in the Economic Complexity Index (ECI -1.53),  and 87 in total exports ($15.4B). That same year, Lesotho ranked 158 in total exports ($1.16B), and does not have data regarding Economic Complexity Index.

Historical Data

Bilateral Trade by Products

Depth
Value
Year

Papua New Guinea does not register exports to Lesotho.

Lesotho does not register exports to Papua New Guinea.

Exports from Papua New Guinea (Flag) to Lesotho (Flag) (2021)

Exports from Lesotho (Flag) to Papua New Guinea (Flag) (2021)

Market Competitiveness

Color
Papua New Guinea
Top Destination
Japan$4.03B
Lesotho
Top Destination
South Africa$434M

This map shows whether countries import more from Papua New Guinea or Lesotho. Each country is colored based on the difference in imports they receive from Papua New Guinea and Lesotho or the difference in the growth in imports.

In 2022, countries that imported more from Papua New Guinea than Lesotho included Japan ($4.03B), China ($3.44B), and Australia ($1.74B).

In 2022, countries that imported more from Lesotho than Papua New Guinea included South Africa ($434M), United States ($327M), and Belgium ($219M).

Difference in imports from Lesotho (Flag) and Papua New Guinea (Flag) (2022)

Comparative Advantage Papua New Guinea - Lesotho

Flow
Scale
Year

This chart compares trade between Papua New Guinea and Lesotho by product, considering products traded by both, Papua New Guinea and Lesotho.

Potential Exports

Potential Exports

Depth
View
Sort By
Top Product Potential Papua New Guinea Lesotho+$2.18kPetroleum Gas
Top Product Potential Lesotho Papua New Guinea+$1.2kNon-Knit Men's Suits

We estimate the export potential of an economy for each product and destination using an extension of the bilateral relatedness model of Jun et al. (2019).This extended gravity model considers similarities among products and geographies and explains more than 50% of the variance in future trade flows.

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Economic Complexity

Competitive Landscape

Year

This visualization shows the product space at the HS4 level with the flags of Papua New Guinea and Lesotho. This means that a dot/product with the flag of Papua New Guinea indicates it has a comparative advantage over Lesotho. Similarly, a dot/product with the flag of Lesotho indicates it has a comparative advantage over Papua New Guinea.

Product Space of Papua New Guinea (Flag) and Lesotho (Flag) (2021)

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