Benin Exports 2023
Complete list of Benin's 120 export destinations and 100+ product categories. Sourced from CEPII BACI.
$1.85B
Total exports (2023)
#146
Global export rank
120
Destination countries
100+
Product categories tracked
Benin exported $1.85 billion of merchandise goods in 2023, making it the world's #146 largest exporter. Goods flowed to 120 destinations, with the top ten markets absorbing 87.8% of total export value. The leading export was gold, non-monetary, unwrought (but not powder), valued at $609.02 million — 33.0% of the country's export portfolio.
The two tables below list every destination country and the most-traded product categories at the HS6 (Harmonized System 6-digit) level. All values come from the CEPII BACI database, which reconciles UN Comtrade declarations to produce cleaner bilateral flows.
All export destinations
120 countries and territories. Click any country for the full bilateral page.
| # | Destination | 2023 export value | % of total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Arab Emirates | $654.07M | 35.43% |
| 2 | Bangladesh | $391.46M | 21.21% |
| 3 | India | $221.79M | 12.01% |
| 4 | China | $120.78M | 6.54% |
| 5 | Pakistan | $74.43M | 4.03% |
| 6 | Togo | $57.84M | 3.13% |
| 7 | Chad | $36.72M | 1.99% |
| 8 | Egypt | $23.23M | 1.26% |
| 9 | Nigeria | $21.23M | 1.15% |
| 10 | Côte d'Ivoire | $18.38M | 1.00% |
| 11 | Viet Nam | $17.73M | 0.96% |
| 12 | USA | $15.90M | 0.86% |
| 13 | Niger | $15.66M | 0.85% |
| 14 | Malaysia | $14.79M | 0.80% |
| 15 | Netherlands | $14.53M | 0.79% |
| 16 | France | $13.78M | 0.75% |
| 17 | Mauritius | $12.25M | 0.66% |
| 18 | Türkiye | $11.85M | 0.64% |
| 19 | Denmark | $10.15M | 0.55% |
| 20 | Burkina Faso | $6.78M | 0.37% |
| 21 | Italy | $6.71M | 0.36% |
| 22 | Belgium | $6.61M | 0.36% |
| 23 | Kuwait | $5.92M | 0.32% |
| 24 | South Africa | $5.83M | 0.32% |
| 25 | Switzerland | $5.73M | 0.31% |
| 26 | Senegal | $5.46M | 0.30% |
| 27 | Mali | $4.67M | 0.25% |
| 28 | Ghana | $4.46M | 0.24% |
| 29 | Canada | $4.06M | 0.22% |
| 30 | Saudi Arabia | $3.72M | 0.20% |
| 31 | Germany | $3.40M | 0.18% |
| 32 | Cameroon | $3.32M | 0.18% |
| 33 | Japan | $2.92M | 0.16% |
| 34 | Singapore | $2.69M | 0.15% |
| 35 | Indonesia | $2.30M | 0.12% |
| 36 | Spain | $1.93M | 0.10% |
| 37 | Lebanon | $1.87M | 0.10% |
| 38 | Guinea | $1.76M | 0.10% |
| 39 | Thailand | $1.72M | 0.09% |
| 40 | United Kingdom | $1.71M | 0.09% |
| 41 | Other Asia, nes | $1.49M | 0.08% |
| 42 | Portugal | $1.49M | 0.08% |
| 43 | Poland | $1.27M | 0.07% |
| 44 | Rep. of Korea | $1.15M | 0.06% |
| 45 | Mauritania | $904,824 | 0.05% |
| 46 | United Rep. of Tanzania | $901,572 | 0.05% |
| 47 | Qatar | $680,646 | 0.04% |
| 48 | Uganda | $668,578 | 0.04% |
| 49 | Morocco | $668,486 | 0.04% |
| 50 | Peru | $619,688 | 0.03% |
| 51 | Gabon | $601,179 | 0.03% |
| 52 | Congo | $481,196 | 0.03% |
| 53 | Madagascar | $393,172 | 0.02% |
| 54 | Czechia | $351,597 | 0.02% |
| 55 | Romania | $342,665 | 0.02% |
| 56 | Dem. Rep. of the Congo | $280,406 | 0.02% |
| 57 | Algeria | $244,226 | 0.01% |
| 58 | Angola | $227,423 | 0.01% |
| 59 | China, Hong Kong SAR | $204,122 | 0.01% |
| 60 | Brunei Darussalam | $186,836 | 0.01% |
| 61 | Croatia | $185,242 | 0.01% |
| 62 | Ireland | $181,766 | 0.01% |
| 63 | Equatorial Guinea | $177,806 | 0.01% |
| 64 | Brazil | $151,060 | 0.01% |
| 65 | Russian Federation | $149,418 | 0.01% |
| 66 | Guyana | $140,444 | 0.01% |
| 67 | Argentina | $127,464 | 0.01% |
| 68 | Bulgaria | $127,084 | 0.01% |
| 69 | Oman | $127,083 | 0.01% |
| 70 | Sweden | $116,649 | 0.01% |
| 71 | Bosnia Herzegovina | $104,650 | 0.01% |
| 72 | Greece | $101,442 | 0.01% |
| 73 | Ukraine | $98,790 | 0.01% |
| 74 | Liberia | $95,291 | 0.01% |
| 75 | Kazakhstan | $92,723 | 0.01% |
| 76 | Finland | $72,038 | 0.00% |
| 77 | Ecuador | $68,518 | 0.00% |
| 78 | Lao People's Dem. Rep. | $59,479 | 0.00% |
| 79 | Lithuania | $53,217 | 0.00% |
| 80 | Israel | $53,041 | 0.00% |
| 81 | Austria | $49,256 | 0.00% |
| 82 | Zimbabwe | $48,218 | 0.00% |
| 83 | Jordan | $37,384 | 0.00% |
| 84 | Iceland | $28,690 | 0.00% |
| 85 | Sierra Leone | $22,404 | 0.00% |
| 86 | Gambia | $21,756 | 0.00% |
| 87 | Haiti | $20,776 | 0.00% |
| 88 | Serbia | $17,758 | 0.00% |
| 89 | Slovakia | $17,723 | 0.00% |
| 90 | Djibouti | $16,814 | 0.00% |
| 91 | Cyprus | $16,457 | 0.00% |
| 92 | Luxembourg | $16,008 | 0.00% |
| 93 | Kenya | $14,717 | 0.00% |
| 94 | Australia | $14,368 | 0.00% |
| 95 | Namibia | $10,469 | 0.00% |
| 96 | Central African Rep. | $10,042 | 0.00% |
| 97 | Cambodia | $9,904 | 0.00% |
| 98 | Philippines | $5,934 | 0.00% |
| 99 | Colombia | $5,569 | 0.00% |
| 100 | Ethiopia | $5,564 | 0.00% |
| 101 | Sao Tome and Principe | $4,451 | 0.00% |
| 102 | Burundi | $4,299 | 0.00% |
| 103 | Uruguay | $3,513 | 0.00% |
| 104 | Montenegro | $3,364 | 0.00% |
| 105 | Cuba | $3,297 | 0.00% |
| 106 | Hungary | $3,263 | 0.00% |
| 107 | Georgia | $2,957 | 0.00% |
| 108 | Slovenia | $2,873 | 0.00% |
| 109 | Seychelles | $1,997 | 0.00% |
| 110 | Rwanda | $1,631 | 0.00% |
| 111 | Paraguay | $1,052 | 0.00% |
| 112 | Mozambique | $1,000 | 0.00% |
| 113 | Bermuda | $824 | 0.00% |
| 114 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | $594 | 0.00% |
| 115 | Turkmenistan | $519 | 0.00% |
| 116 | Tunisia | $406 | 0.00% |
| 117 | Dominican Rep. | $143 | 0.00% |
| 118 | Malawi | $100 | 0.00% |
| 119 | Malta | $76 | 0.00% |
| 120 | Guatemala | $38 | 0.00% |
Top export products (HS6)
100 product categories ranked by 2023 export value.
| # | HS6 | Product | Value | % of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 710812 | Metals: gold, non-monetary, unwrought (but not powder) | $609.02M | 32.99% |
| 2 | 520100 | Cotton: not carded or combed | $504.72M | 27.34% |
| 3 | 080131 | Nuts, edible: cashew nuts, fresh or dried, in shell | $118.49M | 6.42% |
| 4 | 120190 | Soya beans: other than seed, whether or not broken | $104.09M | 5.64% |
| 5 | 120110 | Soya beans: seed, whether or not broken | $51.65M | 2.80% |
| 6 | 271000 | Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, not crude: preparations n.e.c. containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or oils from bituminous minerals: these being the basic constituents of the preparations: waste oils | $40.50M | 2.19% |
| 7 | 230400 | Oil-cake and other solid residues: whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of soya-bean oil | $28.12M | 1.52% |
| 8 | 120729 | Oil seeds: cotton seeds, other than seed, whether or not broken | $25.90M | 1.40% |
| 9 | 440729 | Wood, tropical, n.e.c. in item no. 4407.2, sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6mm | $23.52M | 1.27% |
| 10 | 080132 | Nuts, edible: cashew nuts, fresh or dried, shelled | $23.44M | 1.27% |
| 11 | 721420 | Iron or non-alloy steel: bars and rods, hot-rolled, hot-drawn or hot-extruded, containing indentations, ribs, grooves or other deformations produced during the rolling process or twisted after rolling | $20.98M | 1.14% |
| 12 | 230610 | Oil-cake and other solid residues: whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of cotton seed oils | $20.94M | 1.13% |
| 13 | 721391 | Iron or non-alloy steel: bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils, n.e.c. in heading no. 7213, of circular cross-section measuring less than 14mm in diameter | $18.21M | 0.99% |
| 14 | 440349 | Wood, tropical: other than dark red meranti, light red meranti and meranti bakau, in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared, untreated | $15.85M | 0.86% |
| 15 | 520812 | Fabrics, woven: containing 85% or more by weight of cotton, unbleached, plain weave, weighing more than 100g/m2 but not more than 200g/m2 | $15.06M | 0.82% |
| 16 | 120799 | Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits: n.e.c. in heading no. 1207, whether or not broken | $13.30M | 0.72% |
| 17 | 440929 | Wood: non-coniferous, other than bamboo or tropical wood, (including unassembled strips and friezes for parquet flooring), continuously shaped along any edges, ends or faces, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed | $8.17M | 0.44% |
| 18 | 151590 | Vegetable fats and oils and their fractions: fixed, n.e.c. in heading no. 1515, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | $8.10M | 0.44% |
| 19 | 150710 | Vegetable oils: soya-bean oil and its fractions, crude, whether or not degummed, not chemically modified | $6.51M | 0.35% |
| 20 | 842952 | Mechanical shovels, excavators and shovel loaders: with a 360 degree revolving super structure | $5.93M | 0.32% |
| 21 | 710813 | Metals: gold, semi-manufactured | $5.82M | 0.32% |
| 22 | 890510 | Dredgers | $5.42M | 0.29% |
| 23 | 200811 | Nuts: ground-nuts, whether or not containing added sugar, other sweetening matter or spirit | $5.31M | 0.29% |
| 24 | 080430 | Fruit, edible: pineapples, fresh or dried | $4.56M | 0.25% |
| 25 | 840219 | Boilers: vapour generating boilers, including hybrid boilers n.e.c. in heading no. 8402 | $4.28M | 0.23% |
| 26 | 730210 | Iron or steel, railway or tramway track construction material: rails | $3.89M | 0.21% |
| 27 | 200941 | Juice: pineapple, of a Brix value not exceeding 20, unfermented, (not containing added spirit), whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter | $3.88M | 0.21% |
| 28 | 080450 | Fruit, edible: guavas, mangoes and mangosteens, fresh or dried | $3.75M | 0.20% |
| 29 | 740400 | Copper: waste and scrap | $3.36M | 0.18% |
| 30 | 100630 | Cereals: rice, semi-milled or wholly milled, whether or not polished or glazed | $3.05M | 0.17% |
| 31 | 151221 | Vegetable oils: cotton-seed oil and its fractions: crude, whether or not gossypol has been removed, not chemically modified | $3.04M | 0.16% |
| 32 | 151190 | Vegetable oils: palm oil and its fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | $2.91M | 0.16% |
| 33 | 230690 | Oil-cake and other solid residues: whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of oils, n.e.c. in heading no. 2306 | $2.81M | 0.15% |
| 34 | 300490 | Medicaments: consisting of mixed or unmixed products n.e.c. in heading no. 3004, for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, packaged for retail sale | $2.79M | 0.15% |
| 35 | 481159 | Paper and paperboard: coated, impregnated or covered with plastics (excluding adhesives), other than bleached and weighing more than 150g/m2, other than goods of heading no. 4803, 4809, or 4810 | $2.59M | 0.14% |
| 36 | 080212 | Nuts, edible: almonds, fresh or dried, shelled | $2.47M | 0.13% |
| 37 | 410120 | Raw hides and skins: whole, unsplit, of bovine or equine animals, of a weight per skin not exceeding 8kg when simply dried, 10kg when dry-salted or 16kg when fresh, wet-salted or otherwise preserved | $2.45M | 0.13% |
| 38 | 151229 | Vegetable oils: cotton-seed oil and its fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | $2.41M | 0.13% |
| 39 | 870423 | Vehicles: compression-ignition internal combustion piston engine (diesel or semi-diesel), for transport of goods, (of a g.v.w. exceeding 20 tonnes), n.e.c. in item no 8704.1 | $2.16M | 0.12% |
| 40 | 392062 | Plastics: plates, sheets, film, foil and strip (not self-adhesive), of poly(ethylene terephthalate), non-cellular and not reinforced, laminated, supported or similarly combined with other materials | $2.14M | 0.12% |
| 41 | 440139 | Wood: for fuel, sawdust and wood waste and scrap, agglomerated in logs, briquettes, pellets or similar forms: other than wood pellets | $2.05M | 0.11% |
| 42 | 720917 | Iron or non-alloy steel: in coils, flat-rolled, width 600mm or more, cold-rolled, of a thickness of 0.5mm or more but not exceeding 1mm | $2.03M | 0.11% |
| 43 | 730300 | Cast iron: tubes, pipes and hollow profiles | $1.97M | 0.11% |
| 44 | 071333 | Vegetables, leguminous: kidney beans, including white pea beans (phaseolus vulgaris), shelled, whether or not skinned or split, dried | $1.95M | 0.11% |
| 45 | 843149 | Machinery: parts of machines handling earth, minerals or ores and n.e.c. in heading no. 8431 | $1.93M | 0.10% |
| 46 | 230990 | Dog or cat food: (not put up for retail sale), used in animal feeding | $1.91M | 0.10% |
| 47 | 870410 | Vehicles: dumpers, designed for off-highway use, for transport of goods | $1.89M | 0.10% |
| 48 | 721661 | Iron or non-alloy steel: angles, shapes and sections, cold-formed or cold-finished, obtained from flat-rolled products | $1.88M | 0.10% |
| 49 | 630900 | Clothing: worn, and other worn articles | $1.85M | 0.10% |
| 50 | 842911 | Bulldozers and angledozers: self-propelled, track laying | $1.74M | 0.09% |
| 51 | 842951 | Front-end shovel loaders | $1.73M | 0.09% |
| 52 | 120929 | Seeds of forage plants: other than lucerne, clover, fescue, Kentucky blue grass, and rye grass seeds, of a kind used for sowing | $1.73M | 0.09% |
| 53 | 842940 | Tamping machines and road rollers: self-propelled | $1.58M | 0.09% |
| 54 | 760612 | Aluminium: plates, sheets and strip, thickness exceeding 0.2mm, alloys, rectangular (including square) | $1.53M | 0.08% |
| 55 | 220210 | Waters: including mineral and aerated, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured | $1.50M | 0.08% |
| 56 | 440399 | Wood: in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared, untreated, n.e.c. in heading no. 4403 | $1.35M | 0.07% |
| 57 | 721990 | Steel, stainless: flat-rolled, width 600mm or more, n.e.c. in heading no. 7219 | $1.34M | 0.07% |
| 58 | 340119 | Soap and organic surface-active products: in the form of bars, cakes, moulded shapes, and paper, wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent, not for toilet use | $1.26M | 0.07% |
| 59 | 230500 | Oil-cake and other solid residues: whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of ground-nut oil | $1.26M | 0.07% |
| 60 | 252310 | Cement clinkers (whether or not coloured) | $1.26M | 0.07% |
| 61 | 520819 | Fabrics, woven: containing 85% or more by weight of cotton, unbleached, of weaves n.e.c. in item no. 5208.1, weighing not more than 200g/m2 | $1.24M | 0.07% |
| 62 | 400942 | Rubber: vulcanised (other than hard rubber), tubing, piping and hoses, reinforced or otherwise combined with materials other than metal or textiles, with fittings | $1.23M | 0.07% |
| 63 | 842920 | Graders and levellers | $1.15M | 0.06% |
| 64 | 252329 | Cement: portland, other than white, whether or not artificially coloured | $1.14M | 0.06% |
| 65 | 040310 | Dairy produce: yoghurt, whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured or containing added fruit or cocoa | $1.14M | 0.06% |
| 66 | 750300 | Nickel: waste and scrap | $1.14M | 0.06% |
| 67 | 760200 | Aluminium: waste and scrap | $1.13M | 0.06% |
| 68 | 847989 | Machines and mechanical appliances: having individual functions, n.e.c. or included in this chapter | $1.09M | 0.06% |
| 69 | 520299 | Cotton: waste other than garnetted stock and yarn (including thread) waste | $1.08M | 0.06% |
| 70 | 440290 | Wood: charcoal of wood other than bamboo (including shell or nut charcoal), whether or not agglomerated | $1.06M | 0.06% |
| 71 | 040510 | Dairy produce: derived from milk, butter | $1.00M | 0.05% |
| 72 | 220300 | Beer: made from malt | $1.00M | 0.05% |
| 73 | 621142 | Track suits and other garments n.e.c.: women's or girls', of cotton (not knitted or crocheted) | $991,318 | 0.05% |
| 74 | 760120 | Aluminium: unwrought, alloys | $956,498 | 0.05% |
| 75 | 731021 | Cans: which are to be closed by soldering or crimping, for any material (excluding compressed or liquefied gas), less than 50l capacity, of iron or steel | $932,491 | 0.05% |
| 76 | 150790 | Vegetable oils: soya-bean oil and its fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | $932,180 | 0.05% |
| 77 | 870590 | Vehicles: break-down lorries, road-sweepers, spraying lorries, mobile workshops, mobile radiological units, and other special purpose vehicles n.e.c. in heading no. 8705 | $917,835 | 0.05% |
| 78 | 721090 | Iron or non-alloy steel: flat-rolled, width 600mm or more, plated or coated with materials n.e.c. in heading no. 7210 | $862,149 | 0.05% |
| 79 | 870510 | Vehicles: crane lorries | $856,574 | 0.05% |
| 80 | 730890 | Iron or steel: structures and parts thereof, n.e.c. in heading 7308 | $832,570 | 0.05% |
| 81 | 392310 | Plastics: boxes, cases, crates and similar articles for the conveyance or packing of goods | $832,342 | 0.05% |
| 82 | 190230 | Food preparations: pasta (excluding stuffed), cooked or otherwise prepared | $819,128 | 0.04% |
| 83 | 080111 | Nuts, edible: coconuts, desiccated | $807,294 | 0.04% |
| 84 | 732399 | Iron or steel: table, kitchen and other household articles and parts thereof, of iron or steel n.e.c. in heading no. 7323 | $791,415 | 0.04% |
| 85 | 870323 | Vehicles: with only spark-ignition internal combustion reciprocating piston engine, cylinder capacity over 1500 but not over 3000cc | $768,119 | 0.04% |
| 86 | 871120 | Motorcycles (including mopeds) and cycles: fitted with an auxiliary motor, reciprocating internal combustion piston engine, of cylinder capacity exceeding 50cc but not exceeding 250cc, with or without side-cars: side-cars | $762,034 | 0.04% |
| 87 | 831120 | Wire: cored, of base metal, for electric arc-welding | $734,870 | 0.04% |
| 88 | 711292 | Waste and scrap of precious metals: of platinum, including metal clad with platinum but excluding sweepings containing other precious metals | $727,838 | 0.04% |
| 89 | 730661 | Iron or steel (excluding cast iron): tubes, pipes and hollow profiles (not seamless), welded, of square or rectangular cross-section, n.e.c. in chapter 73 | $673,683 | 0.04% |
| 90 | 170113 | Sugars: cane sugar, raw, in solid form, as specified in Subheading Note 2 to this chapter, not containing added flavouring or colouring matter | $636,155 | 0.03% |
| 91 | 851590 | Welding, brazing or soldering machines: parts of the machines of heading no. 8515 | $627,087 | 0.03% |
| 92 | 040390 | Dairy produce: buttermilk, curdled milk or cream, kephir, fermented or acidified milk or cream, whether or not concentrated or containing added sweetening, flavouring, fruit or cocoa (excluding yoghurt) | $620,582 | 0.03% |
| 93 | 130219 | Vegetable saps and extracts: n.e.c. in item no. 1302.1 | $616,265 | 0.03% |
| 94 | 230230 | Bran, sharps and other residues: of wheat, whether or not in the form of pellets, derived from the sifting, milling or other workings thereof | $613,338 | 0.03% |
| 95 | 851539 | Welding machines and apparatus: for arc (including plasma arc) welding of metals, other than fully or partly automatic, whether or not capable of cutting | $600,685 | 0.03% |
| 96 | 110620 | Flour, meal and powder: of sago or of roots or tubers of heading no. 0714 | $598,840 | 0.03% |
| 97 | 854140 | Electrical apparatus: photosensitive, including photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled in modules or made up into panels, light-emitting diodes (LED) | $594,461 | 0.03% |
| 98 | 720838 | Iron or non-alloy steel: in coils, without patterns in relief, flat-rolled, of a width 600mm or more, hot-rolled, of a thickness of 3mm or more but less than 4.75mm | $580,796 | 0.03% |
| 99 | 870421 | Vehicles: compression-ignition internal combustion piston engine (diesel or semi-diesel), for transport of goods, (of a gvw not exceeding 5 tonnes), n.e.c. in item no 8704.1 | $561,905 | 0.03% |
| 100 | 320910 | Paints and varnishes: based on acrylic or vinyl polymers, dispersed or dissolved in an aqueous medium | $547,690 | 0.03% |