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Sierra Leone-France Trade: In 2022, Sierra Leone exported $8.82M to France. The main products that Sierra Leone exported to France were N/A. Over the past 5 years the exports of Sierra Leone to France have decreased at an annualized rate of 16.7%, from $22M in 2017 to $8.82M in 2022.

In 2022, Sierra Leone did not export any services to France.

France-Sierra Leone Trade: In 2022, France exported $14.4M to Sierra Leone. The main products that France exported to Sierra Leone were Excavation Machinery ($2.31M), Large Construction Vehicles ($1.43M), and Other Edible Preparations ($1.01M). Over the past 5 years the exports of France to Sierra Leone have decreased at an annualized rate of 15.9%,  from $34.3M in 2017 to $14.4M in 2022.

In 2022, France did not export any services to Sierra Leone.

Comparison In 2022,  Sierra Leone ranked 159 in total exports ($1.15B), and does not have data regarding Economic Complexity Index. That same year, France ranked 16 in the Economic Complexity Index (ECI 1.3), and 8 in total exports ($608B).

Historical Data

Bilateral Trade by Products

Depth
Value

In 2022, Sierra Leone exported $8.82M to France. There were not main exports from Sierra Leone to France in 2022. During the last 5 years the exports of Sierra Leone to France have decreased at an annualized rate of 16.7%, from $22M in 2017 to $8.82M in 2022.

In 2017, France exported $14.4M to Sierra Leone. The main products exported from France to Sierra Leone were Excavation Machinery ($2.31M), Large Construction Vehicles ($1.43M), and Other Edible Preparations ($1.01M). During the last 5 years the exports of France to Sierra Leone have decreased at an annualized rate of 15.9%, from $34.3M in 2022 to $14.4M in 2017.

Exports from Sierra Leone (Flag) to France (Flag) (2022)

Exports from France (Flag) to Sierra Leone (Flag) (2022)

Latest Data

Trade between Sierra Leone (Flag) and France (Flag)

France Exports

Market Competitiveness

Color
Sierra Leone
Top Destination
China$622M
France
Top Destination
Germany$78.3B

This map shows whether countries import more from Sierra Leone or France. Each country is colored based on the difference in imports they receive from Sierra Leone and France or the difference in the growth in imports.

In 2022, no countries were registered that imported more from Sierra Leone than from France.

In 2022, countries that imported more from France than Sierra Leone included Germany ($78.3B), Italy ($56.4B), and United States ($50B).

Difference in imports from France (Flag) and Sierra Leone (Flag) (2022)

Comparative Advantage Sierra Leone - France

Flow
Scale

This chart compares trade between Sierra Leone and France by product, considering products traded by both, Sierra Leone and France.

During 2022, Sierra Leone had a large net trade with France in the exports of Mineral Products ($8.05M), Machines ($229k), and Precious Metals ($166k).

During 2017, France had a large net trade with Sierra Leone in the exports of Machines ($7.16M), Foodstuffs ($2.78M), and Plastics and Rubbers ($1.08M).

Potential Exports

Potential Exports

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Top Product Potential Sierra Leone France+$259kExcavation Machinery
Top Product Potential France Sierra Leone+$988kPackaged Medicaments

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

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

Product Space of Sierra Leone (Flag) and France (Flag) (2022)

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