Sudan Exports 2023
Complete list of Sudan's 109 export destinations and 100+ product categories. Sourced from CEPII BACI.
$5.09B
Total exports (2023)
#128
Global export rank
109
Destination countries
100+
Product categories tracked
Sudan exported $5.09 billion of merchandise goods in 2023, making it the world's #128 largest exporter. Goods flowed to 109 destinations, with the top ten markets absorbing 93.6% of total export value. The leading export was petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude, valued at $1.13 billion — 22.1% 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
109 countries and territories. Click any country for the full bilateral page.
| # | Destination | 2023 export value | % of total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Arab Emirates | $1.09B | 21.33% |
| 2 | China | $882.00M | 17.32% |
| 3 | Saudi Arabia | $802.37M | 15.75% |
| 4 | Malaysia | $470.10M | 9.23% |
| 5 | Egypt | $386.91M | 7.60% |
| 6 | India | $355.61M | 6.98% |
| 7 | Italy | $301.01M | 5.91% |
| 8 | Singapore | $184.99M | 3.63% |
| 9 | Germany | $156.03M | 3.06% |
| 10 | Türkiye | $144.64M | 2.84% |
| 11 | France | $71.30M | 1.40% |
| 12 | Jordan | $42.75M | 0.84% |
| 13 | Lebanon | $37.26M | 0.73% |
| 14 | Pakistan | $31.59M | 0.62% |
| 15 | Tunisia | $18.96M | 0.37% |
| 16 | Greece | $14.29M | 0.28% |
| 17 | Japan | $13.93M | 0.27% |
| 18 | USA | $13.45M | 0.26% |
| 19 | United Kingdom | $12.44M | 0.24% |
| 20 | Oman | $9.55M | 0.19% |
| 21 | Ethiopia | $8.96M | 0.18% |
| 22 | Nigeria | $6.83M | 0.13% |
| 23 | Kuwait | $6.72M | 0.13% |
| 24 | Qatar | $6.42M | 0.13% |
| 25 | Kenya | $5.39M | 0.11% |
| 26 | Morocco | $5.26M | 0.10% |
| 27 | Slovakia | $5.03M | 0.10% |
| 28 | Belgium | $1.94M | 0.04% |
| 29 | Indonesia | $1.43M | 0.03% |
| 30 | Thailand | $1.17M | 0.02% |
| 31 | Bahrain | $1.16M | 0.02% |
| 32 | Spain | $1.08M | 0.02% |
| 33 | Netherlands | $703,566 | 0.01% |
| 34 | Lithuania | $604,891 | 0.01% |
| 35 | Senegal | $538,164 | 0.01% |
| 36 | Other Asia, nes | $523,275 | 0.01% |
| 37 | Gabon | $407,738 | 0.01% |
| 38 | China, Hong Kong SAR | $388,355 | 0.01% |
| 39 | Guatemala | $365,890 | 0.01% |
| 40 | Argentina | $360,279 | 0.01% |
| 41 | Angola | $295,086 | 0.01% |
| 42 | Canada | $197,027 | 0.00% |
| 43 | Mauritania | $192,837 | 0.00% |
| 44 | Colombia | $192,082 | 0.00% |
| 45 | Armenia | $143,064 | 0.00% |
| 46 | Austria | $119,925 | 0.00% |
| 47 | Iceland | $110,349 | 0.00% |
| 48 | United Rep. of Tanzania | $107,150 | 0.00% |
| 49 | Serbia | $105,220 | 0.00% |
| 50 | Luxembourg | $101,325 | 0.00% |
| 51 | Australia | $98,541 | 0.00% |
| 52 | Switzerland | $88,355 | 0.00% |
| 53 | Malawi | $79,069 | 0.00% |
| 54 | Poland | $68,552 | 0.00% |
| 55 | Bulgaria | $61,438 | 0.00% |
| 56 | Madagascar | $61,011 | 0.00% |
| 57 | Czechia | $58,178 | 0.00% |
| 58 | Ireland | $56,608 | 0.00% |
| 59 | Ghana | $50,536 | 0.00% |
| 60 | Peru | $49,282 | 0.00% |
| 61 | Uganda | $38,799 | 0.00% |
| 62 | Dominican Rep. | $36,409 | 0.00% |
| 63 | Norway | $36,026 | 0.00% |
| 64 | Brazil | $35,535 | 0.00% |
| 65 | Slovenia | $33,208 | 0.00% |
| 66 | Azerbaijan | $32,003 | 0.00% |
| 67 | Philippines | $27,817 | 0.00% |
| 68 | South Africa | $23,840 | 0.00% |
| 69 | Ecuador | $23,031 | 0.00% |
| 70 | New Zealand | $20,600 | 0.00% |
| 71 | Zimbabwe | $15,870 | 0.00% |
| 72 | Cambodia | $15,634 | 0.00% |
| 73 | Chile | $14,036 | 0.00% |
| 74 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | $10,524 | 0.00% |
| 75 | Bosnia Herzegovina | $10,198 | 0.00% |
| 76 | Guyana | $6,151 | 0.00% |
| 77 | Paraguay | $5,345 | 0.00% |
| 78 | Uruguay | $4,618 | 0.00% |
| 79 | Portugal | $4,316 | 0.00% |
| 80 | Denmark | $3,370 | 0.00% |
| 81 | Sweden | $3,109 | 0.00% |
| 82 | Mozambique | $3,000 | 0.00% |
| 83 | Mauritius | $2,856 | 0.00% |
| 84 | Burkina Faso | $2,803 | 0.00% |
| 85 | Honduras | $2,698 | 0.00% |
| 86 | Côte d'Ivoire | $2,655 | 0.00% |
| 87 | Niger | $1,822 | 0.00% |
| 88 | Romania | $1,260 | 0.00% |
| 89 | Uzbekistan | $984 | 0.00% |
| 90 | Gambia | $938 | 0.00% |
| 91 | Hungary | $824 | 0.00% |
| 92 | Estonia | $710 | 0.00% |
| 93 | Eswatini | $574 | 0.00% |
| 94 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | $508 | 0.00% |
| 95 | Fiji | $459 | 0.00% |
| 96 | Croatia | $444 | 0.00% |
| 97 | Sri Lanka | $377 | 0.00% |
| 98 | China, Macao SAR | $228 | 0.00% |
| 99 | Kazakhstan | $226 | 0.00% |
| 100 | Dominica | $213 | 0.00% |
| 101 | Zambia | $191 | 0.00% |
| 102 | Brunei Darussalam | $173 | 0.00% |
| 103 | Jamaica | $128 | 0.00% |
| 104 | Malta | $126 | 0.00% |
| 105 | Finland | $88 | 0.00% |
| 106 | Cyprus | $22 | 0.00% |
| 107 | Namibia | $21 | 0.00% |
| 108 | Ukraine | $18 | 0.00% |
| 109 | North Macedonia | $17 | 0.00% |
Top export products (HS6)
100 product categories ranked by 2023 export value.
| # | HS6 | Product | Value | % of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 270900 | Oils: petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude | $1.13B | 22.14% |
| 2 | 710812 | Metals: gold, non-monetary, unwrought (but not powder) | $1.03B | 20.30% |
| 3 | 010410 | Sheep: live | $687.44M | 13.50% |
| 4 | 120740 | Oil seeds: sesamum seeds, whether or not broken | $613.04M | 12.04% |
| 5 | 120242 | Ground-nuts: other than seed, not roasted or otherwise cooked, shelled, whether or not broken, | $436.78M | 8.58% |
| 6 | 520100 | Cotton: not carded or combed | $246.49M | 4.84% |
| 7 | 130120 | Gum Arabic | $140.74M | 2.76% |
| 8 | 010613 | Mammals: live, camels and other camelids (Camelidae) | $125.23M | 2.46% |
| 9 | 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 | $105.40M | 2.07% |
| 10 | 120770 | Oil seeds: melon seeds, whether or not broken | $96.14M | 1.89% |
| 11 | 071320 | Vegetables, leguminous: chickpeas (garbanzos), shelled, whether or not skinned or split, dried | $73.74M | 1.45% |
| 12 | 071360 | Vegetables, leguminous: pigeon peas (Cajanus cajan), shelled, whether or not skinned or split, dried | $68.26M | 1.34% |
| 13 | 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 | $48.35M | 0.95% |
| 14 | 010290 | Bovine animals: live, other than cattle and buffalo | $46.41M | 0.91% |
| 15 | 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 | $31.11M | 0.61% |
| 16 | 740400 | Copper: waste and scrap | $20.14M | 0.40% |
| 17 | 150810 | Vegetable oils: ground-nut oil and its fractions, crude, not chemically modified | $18.73M | 0.37% |
| 18 | 121490 | Forage products including swedes, mangolds, fodder roots, hay, sainfoin, clover, forage kale, lupines, vetches etc., pelletised or otherwise | $17.78M | 0.35% |
| 19 | 020421 | Meat: of sheep, carcasses and half-carcasses (excluding carcasses and half-carcasses of lamb), fresh or chilled | $12.04M | 0.24% |
| 20 | 020120 | Meat: of bovine animals, cuts with bone in (excluding carcasses and half-carcasses), fresh or chilled | $11.38M | 0.22% |
| 21 | 120190 | Soya beans: other than seed, whether or not broken | $8.59M | 0.17% |
| 22 | 121410 | Lucerne (alfalfa) meal and pellets | $7.51M | 0.15% |
| 23 | 780199 | Lead: unwrought, unrefined, not containing by weight antimony as the principal other element | $6.97M | 0.14% |
| 24 | 121299 | Vegetable products: fit for human consumption, n.e.c. in heading no. 1212, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground | $6.74M | 0.13% |
| 25 | 130190 | Natural gums, resins, gum-resins and oleoresins, n.e.c. in heading no. 1301 | $6.23M | 0.12% |
| 26 | 010420 | Goats: live | $6.05M | 0.12% |
| 27 | 121190 | Plants and parts (including seeds and fruits) n.e.c. in heading no. 1211, of a kind used primarily in perfumery, in pharmacy or for insecticidal, fungicidal or similar purposes, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not cut, crushed or powdered | $5.91M | 0.12% |
| 28 | 070310 | Vegetables, alliaceous: onions and shallots, fresh or chilled | $5.83M | 0.11% |
| 29 | 020410 | Meat: of sheep, lamb carcasses and half-carcasses, fresh or chilled | $5.78M | 0.11% |
| 30 | 220720 | Ethyl alcohol and other spirits: denatured, of any strength | $5.37M | 0.11% |
| 31 | 410510 | Tanned or crust skins of sheep or lambs, without wool on, whether or not split, but not further prepared, in the wet state (including wet-blue) | $5.04M | 0.10% |
| 32 | 410150 | Hides and skins: raw, whole, of bovine or equine animals, of a weight per skin exceeding 16 kg | $4.00M | 0.08% |
| 33 | 120890 | Flours and meals of oil seeds or oleaginous fruits: excluding soya beans and mustard seeds | $3.27M | 0.06% |
| 34 | 020130 | Meat: of bovine animals, boneless cuts, fresh or chilled | $3.16M | 0.06% |
| 35 | 760120 | Aluminium: unwrought, alloys | $2.93M | 0.06% |
| 36 | 410221 | Skins: raw, of sheep or lambs, pickled (but not tanned, parchment-dressed or further preserved), without wool on | $2.38M | 0.05% |
| 37 | 780110 | Lead: unwrought, refined | $2.31M | 0.05% |
| 38 | 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 | $2.27M | 0.04% |
| 39 | 100790 | Cereals: grain sorghum, other than seed | $1.88M | 0.04% |
| 40 | 730424 | Steel, stainless: seamless, casing and tubing, of a kind used in drilling for oil or gas | $1.71M | 0.03% |
| 41 | 760200 | Aluminium: waste and scrap | $1.46M | 0.03% |
| 42 | 440290 | Wood: charcoal of wood other than bamboo (including shell or nut charcoal), whether or not agglomerated | $1.33M | 0.03% |
| 43 | 847982 | Machines: for mixing, kneading, crushing, grinding, screening, sifting, homogenising, emulsifying or stirring | $1.31M | 0.03% |
| 44 | 261000 | Chromium ores and concentrates | $1.27M | 0.02% |
| 45 | 090931 | Spices: cumin seeds, neither crushed nor ground | $1.27M | 0.02% |
| 46 | 170310 | Sugars: molasses, from sugar cane, resulting from the extraction or refining of sugar | $1.27M | 0.02% |
| 47 | 020110 | Meat: of bovine animals, carcasses and half-carcasses, fresh or chilled | $1.22M | 0.02% |
| 48 | 010221 | Cattle: live, pure-bred breeding animals | $1.20M | 0.02% |
| 49 | 080711 | Fruit, edible: watermelons, fresh | $1.09M | 0.02% |
| 50 | 711292 | Waste and scrap of precious metals: of platinum, including metal clad with platinum but excluding sweepings containing other precious metals | $1.03M | 0.02% |
| 51 | 391590 | Plastics n.e.c. in heading no. 3915: waste, parings and scrap | $869,491 | 0.02% |
| 52 | 151550 | Vegetable oils: sesame oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | $838,386 | 0.02% |
| 53 | 151190 | Vegetable oils: palm oil and its fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | $776,816 | 0.02% |
| 54 | 230990 | Dog or cat food: (not put up for retail sale), used in animal feeding | $683,050 | 0.01% |
| 55 | 190190 | Food preparations: of flour, meal, starch, malt extract or milk products, for uses n.e.c. in heading no. 1901 | $599,899 | 0.01% |
| 56 | 390761 | Poly(ethylene terephthalate): in primary forms, having a viscosity of 78ml/g or higher | $549,879 | 0.01% |
| 57 | 071340 | Vegetables, leguminous: lentils, shelled, whether or not skinned or split, dried | $517,117 | 0.01% |
| 58 | 120999 | Seeds: n.e.c. in heading 1209, of a kind used for sowing | $491,368 | 0.01% |
| 59 | 470790 | Paper or paperboard: waste and scrap, of paper or paperboard n.e.c. in heading no. 4707 and of unsorted waste and scrap | $477,523 | 0.01% |
| 60 | 790200 | Zinc: waste and scrap | $467,946 | 0.01% |
| 61 | 848360 | Clutches and shaft couplings (including universal joints) | $437,428 | 0.01% |
| 62 | 100590 | Cereals: maize (corn), other than seed | $431,060 | 0.01% |
| 63 | 091099 | Spices: n.e.c. in heading no. 0910 | $414,639 | 0.01% |
| 64 | 710691 | Metals: silver, unwrought, (but not powder) | $401,294 | 0.01% |
| 65 | 100710 | Cereals: grain sorghum, seed | $383,927 | 0.01% |
| 66 | 901812 | Medical, surgical instruments and appliances: ultrasonic scanning apparatus | $375,458 | 0.01% |
| 67 | 280800 | Nitric acid: sulphonitric acids | $371,051 | 0.01% |
| 68 | 851762 | Communication apparatus (excluding telephone sets or base stations): machines for the reception, conversion and transmission or regeneration of voice, images or other data, including switching and routing apparatus | $366,907 | 0.01% |
| 69 | 071335 | Vegetables, leguminous: cow peas (Vigna unguiculata), shelled, whether or not skinned or split, dried | $362,330 | 0.01% |
| 70 | 030819 | Aquatic invertebrates: sea cucumbers (Stichopus japonicus, Holothuroidea), dried, salted or in brine, smoked, whether or not cooked before or during the smoking process | $352,951 | 0.01% |
| 71 | 260700 | Lead ores and concentrates | $340,775 | 0.01% |
| 72 | 847160 | Units of automatic data processing machines: input or output units, whether or not containing storage units in the same housing | $327,136 | 0.01% |
| 73 | 110100 | Wheat or meslin flour | $319,682 | 0.01% |
| 74 | 080410 | Fruit, edible: dates, fresh or dried | $301,365 | 0.01% |
| 75 | 320740 | Glass: glass frit and other glass, in the form of powder, granules or flakes | $290,472 | 0.01% |
| 76 | 390210 | Propylene, other olefin polymers: polypropylene in primary forms | $280,442 | 0.01% |
| 77 | 480421 | Kraft paper and paperboard: sack kraft paper, uncoated, unbleached, in rolls or sheets, other than that of heading no. 4802 or 4803 | $272,555 | 0.01% |
| 78 | 780191 | Lead: unwrought, unrefined, containing by weight antimony as the principal other element | $263,999 | 0.01% |
| 79 | 540794 | Fabrics, woven: of synthetic filament yarn, printed, n.e.c. in heading no. 5407 | $261,051 | 0.01% |
| 80 | 860900 | Containers: (including containers for transport of fluids) specially designed and equipped for carriage by one or more modes of transport | $260,589 | 0.01% |
| 81 | 850710 | Electric accumulators: lead-acid, of a kind used for starting piston engines, including separators, whether or not rectangular (including square) | $243,576 | 0.00% |
| 82 | 020450 | Meat: of goats, fresh, chilled or frozen | $240,942 | 0.00% |
| 83 | 253090 | Mineral substances: n.e.c. in chapter 25 | $238,584 | 0.00% |
| 84 | 854420 | Insulated electric conductors: co-axial cable and other co-axial electric conductors | $234,415 | 0.00% |
| 85 | 854231 | Electronic integrated circuits: processors and controllers, whether or not combined with memories, converters, logic circuits, amplifiers, clock and timing circuits, or other circuits | $231,683 | 0.00% |
| 86 | 121300 | Cereal straw and husks: unprepared, whether or not chopped, ground, pressed or in the form of pellets | $223,919 | 0.00% |
| 87 | 200290 | Vegetable preparations: tomatoes, (other than whole or in pieces), prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid | $216,135 | 0.00% |
| 88 | 841810 | Refrigerators and freezers: combined refrigerator-freezers, fitted with separate external doors, electric or other | $199,905 | 0.00% |
| 89 | 845150 | Machines: for reeling, unreeling, folding, cutting or pinking textile fabrics | $197,134 | 0.00% |
| 90 | 260200 | Manganese ores and concentrates, including ferruginous manganese ores and concentrates with a manganese content of 20% or more, calculated on the dry weight | $192,780 | 0.00% |
| 91 | 020423 | Meat: of sheep (including lamb), boneless cuts, fresh or chilled | $187,894 | 0.00% |
| 92 | 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 | $184,322 | 0.00% |
| 93 | 120241 | Ground-nuts: other than seed, not roasted or otherwise cooked, in shell | $183,867 | 0.00% |
| 94 | 380991 | Finishing agents and dye carriers: to accelerate dyeing or fixing of dye-stuffs, other products and preparations, used in the textile industry (excluding those with a basis of amylaceous substances) | $159,772 | 0.00% |
| 95 | 090961 | Spices: seeds of anise, badian, caraway or fennel: juniper berries, neither crushed nor ground | $154,227 | 0.00% |
| 96 | 392520 | Plastics: builders' ware, doors, windows and their frames and thresholds for doors | $153,036 | 0.00% |
| 97 | 880330 | Aircraft and spacecraft: parts of aeroplanes or helicopters n.e.c. in heading no. 8803 | $152,875 | 0.00% |
| 98 | 080450 | Fruit, edible: guavas, mangoes and mangosteens, fresh or dried | $150,698 | 0.00% |
| 99 | 520512 | Cotton yarn: (not sewing thread), single, of uncombed fibres, 85% or more by weight of cotton, less than 714.29 but not less than 232.56 decitex (exceeding 14 but not exceeding 43 metric number), not for retail sale | $142,994 | 0.00% |
| 100 | 560749 | Twine, cordage, ropes, cables: of polyethylene or polypropylene (excluding binder or baler twine), whether or not plaited, braided or rubber or plastic impregnated, coated, covered or sheathed | $142,631 | 0.00% |