Zambia Exports 2023
Complete list of Zambia's 135 export destinations and 100+ product categories. Sourced from CEPII BACI.
$15.72B
Total exports (2023)
#85
Global export rank
135
Destination countries
100+
Product categories tracked
Zambia exported $15.72 billion of merchandise goods in 2023, making it the world's #85 largest exporter. Goods flowed to 135 destinations, with the top ten markets absorbing 87.2% of total export value. The leading export was unrefined, copper anodes for electrolytic refining, valued at $6.95 billion — 44.2% 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
135 countries and territories. Click any country for the full bilateral page.
| # | Destination | 2023 export value | % of total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Switzerland | $4.27B | 27.17% |
| 2 | China | $2.16B | 13.75% |
| 3 | India | $2.06B | 13.11% |
| 4 | United Arab Emirates | $1.88B | 11.97% |
| 5 | Dem. Rep. of the Congo | $1.60B | 10.19% |
| 6 | Singapore | $585.24M | 3.72% |
| 7 | South Africa | $441.81M | 2.81% |
| 8 | Zimbabwe | $264.23M | 1.68% |
| 9 | China, Hong Kong SAR | $233.63M | 1.49% |
| 10 | Canada | $214.22M | 1.36% |
| 11 | Namibia | $198.09M | 1.26% |
| 12 | Malawi | $176.21M | 1.12% |
| 13 | Egypt | $164.41M | 1.05% |
| 14 | United Rep. of Tanzania | $152.20M | 0.97% |
| 15 | USA | $151.56M | 0.96% |
| 16 | Botswana | $141.83M | 0.90% |
| 17 | Greece | $88.38M | 0.56% |
| 18 | Pakistan | $77.60M | 0.49% |
| 19 | Saudi Arabia | $64.86M | 0.41% |
| 20 | Germany | $61.59M | 0.39% |
| 21 | Kenya | $59.39M | 0.38% |
| 22 | Other Asia, nes | $57.13M | 0.36% |
| 23 | Kuwait | $56.87M | 0.36% |
| 24 | Thailand | $49.23M | 0.31% |
| 25 | Italy | $48.11M | 0.31% |
| 26 | Netherlands | $41.99M | 0.27% |
| 27 | Mozambique | $37.76M | 0.24% |
| 28 | Spain | $32.26M | 0.21% |
| 29 | Uganda | $30.24M | 0.19% |
| 30 | Luxembourg | $28.36M | 0.18% |
| 31 | Belgium | $23.83M | 0.15% |
| 32 | Burundi | $23.28M | 0.15% |
| 33 | Mauritius | $22.16M | 0.14% |
| 34 | Rwanda | $20.08M | 0.13% |
| 35 | France | $19.80M | 0.13% |
| 36 | Türkiye | $17.42M | 0.11% |
| 37 | Congo | $15.41M | 0.10% |
| 38 | Angola | $13.31M | 0.08% |
| 39 | Lesotho | $12.49M | 0.08% |
| 40 | Poland | $12.09M | 0.08% |
| 41 | United Kingdom | $12.07M | 0.08% |
| 42 | Japan | $11.56M | 0.07% |
| 43 | Malaysia | $9.50M | 0.06% |
| 44 | Viet Nam | $9.29M | 0.06% |
| 45 | Rep. of Korea | $8.27M | 0.05% |
| 46 | Indonesia | $6.42M | 0.04% |
| 47 | Denmark | $5.56M | 0.04% |
| 48 | Mexico | $3.02M | 0.02% |
| 49 | Austria | $2.91M | 0.02% |
| 50 | Australia | $2.79M | 0.02% |
| 51 | Ukraine | $2.68M | 0.02% |
| 52 | Nigeria | $2.65M | 0.02% |
| 53 | Bahrain | $2.33M | 0.01% |
| 54 | Brazil | $2.07M | 0.01% |
| 55 | Oman | $2.00M | 0.01% |
| 56 | Madagascar | $1.77M | 0.01% |
| 57 | Côte d'Ivoire | $1.44M | 0.01% |
| 58 | Romania | $1.38M | 0.01% |
| 59 | Central African Rep. | $1.33M | 0.01% |
| 60 | Czechia | $1.30M | 0.01% |
| 61 | Tunisia | $1.17M | 0.01% |
| 62 | Sweden | $1.02M | 0.01% |
| 63 | Morocco | $987,888 | 0.01% |
| 64 | Israel | $948,500 | 0.01% |
| 65 | Eswatini | $831,199 | 0.01% |
| 66 | Burkina Faso | $756,839 | 0.00% |
| 67 | Bulgaria | $708,924 | 0.00% |
| 68 | Uruguay | $627,890 | 0.00% |
| 69 | Sierra Leone | $608,005 | 0.00% |
| 70 | Jordan | $587,897 | 0.00% |
| 71 | Ghana | $574,099 | 0.00% |
| 72 | Cameroon | $533,543 | 0.00% |
| 73 | Philippines | $476,150 | 0.00% |
| 74 | Myanmar | $463,770 | 0.00% |
| 75 | Norway | $445,288 | 0.00% |
| 76 | Guatemala | $441,773 | 0.00% |
| 77 | Costa Rica | $433,661 | 0.00% |
| 78 | Sudan | $420,684 | 0.00% |
| 79 | Ethiopia | $400,687 | 0.00% |
| 80 | Portugal | $383,630 | 0.00% |
| 81 | Mauritania | $339,400 | 0.00% |
| 82 | Slovenia | $301,300 | 0.00% |
| 83 | Togo | $284,385 | 0.00% |
| 84 | Kazakhstan | $276,483 | 0.00% |
| 85 | Hungary | $276,424 | 0.00% |
| 86 | Finland | $265,324 | 0.00% |
| 87 | Armenia | $252,665 | 0.00% |
| 88 | Lithuania | $239,814 | 0.00% |
| 89 | Lebanon | $210,867 | 0.00% |
| 90 | South Sudan | $197,315 | 0.00% |
| 91 | Dominican Rep. | $172,514 | 0.00% |
| 92 | Azerbaijan | $153,567 | 0.00% |
| 93 | Qatar | $149,459 | 0.00% |
| 94 | Peru | $136,215 | 0.00% |
| 95 | New Zealand | $126,537 | 0.00% |
| 96 | Serbia | $118,152 | 0.00% |
| 97 | Ireland | $76,413 | 0.00% |
| 98 | Chile | $65,031 | 0.00% |
| 99 | Slovakia | $47,259 | 0.00% |
| 100 | Benin | $45,702 | 0.00% |
| 101 | Djibouti | $44,286 | 0.00% |
| 102 | Bosnia Herzegovina | $43,949 | 0.00% |
| 103 | Argentina | $43,773 | 0.00% |
| 104 | North Macedonia | $42,225 | 0.00% |
| 105 | Sri Lanka | $23,746 | 0.00% |
| 106 | Russian Federation | $15,484 | 0.00% |
| 107 | Senegal | $13,660 | 0.00% |
| 108 | Cyprus | $13,204 | 0.00% |
| 109 | Bahamas | $11,858 | 0.00% |
| 110 | Chad | $9,450 | 0.00% |
| 111 | China, Macao SAR | $7,854 | 0.00% |
| 112 | Iceland | $6,339 | 0.00% |
| 113 | Jamaica | $5,525 | 0.00% |
| 114 | Rep. of Moldova | $5,169 | 0.00% |
| 115 | Iran | $5,040 | 0.00% |
| 116 | Montenegro | $3,067 | 0.00% |
| 117 | Kyrgyzstan | $2,994 | 0.00% |
| 118 | Niger | $1,981 | 0.00% |
| 119 | Malta | $1,253 | 0.00% |
| 120 | Gambia | $981 | 0.00% |
| 121 | Brunei Darussalam | $912 | 0.00% |
| 122 | Mali | $887 | 0.00% |
| 123 | Seychelles | $819 | 0.00% |
| 124 | Latvia | $781 | 0.00% |
| 125 | Paraguay | $511 | 0.00% |
| 126 | Barbados | $315 | 0.00% |
| 127 | Croatia | $201 | 0.00% |
| 128 | Estonia | $127 | 0.00% |
| 129 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | $101 | 0.00% |
| 130 | Somalia | $92 | 0.00% |
| 131 | Maldives | $69 | 0.00% |
| 132 | Suriname | $37 | 0.00% |
| 133 | Honduras | $29 | 0.00% |
| 134 | Andorra | $10 | 0.00% |
| 135 | Panama | $4 | 0.00% |
Top export products (HS6)
100 product categories ranked by 2023 export value.
| # | HS6 | Product | Value | % of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 740200 | Copper: unrefined, copper anodes for electrolytic refining | $6.95B | 44.20% |
| 2 | 740311 | Copper: refined, unwrought, cathodes and sections of cathodes | $2.43B | 15.46% |
| 3 | 710812 | Metals: gold, non-monetary, unwrought (but not powder) | $1.90B | 12.07% |
| 4 | 271600 | Electrical energy | $338.43M | 2.15% |
| 5 | 250300 | Sulphur of all kinds: other than sublimed, precipitated and colloidal sulphur | $284.50M | 1.81% |
| 6 | 240120 | Tobacco: partly or wholly stemmed or stripped | $272.49M | 1.73% |
| 7 | 710310 | Stones: precious (other than diamonds) and semi-precious stones, unworked or simply sawn or roughly shaped, not strung, mounted or set | $229.11M | 1.46% |
| 8 | 260400 | Nickel ores and concentrates | $196.09M | 1.25% |
| 9 | 710391 | Stones: rubies, sapphires and emeralds, worked (other than simply sawn or roughly shaped), not strung, mounted or set | $154.82M | 0.98% |
| 10 | 870410 | Vehicles: dumpers, designed for off-highway use, for transport of goods | $153.36M | 0.98% |
| 11 | 720230 | Ferro-alloys: ferro-silico-manganese | $109.11M | 0.69% |
| 12 | 252329 | Cement: portland, other than white, whether or not artificially coloured | $108.48M | 0.69% |
| 13 | 170114 | Sugars: cane sugar, raw, in solid form, other than as specified in Subheading Note 2 to this chapter, not containing added flavouring or colouring matter | $103.29M | 0.66% |
| 14 | 220210 | Waters: including mineral and aerated, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured | $98.70M | 0.63% |
| 15 | 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 | $95.82M | 0.61% |
| 16 | 280700 | Sulphuric acid: oleum | $86.03M | 0.55% |
| 17 | 340220 | Washing and cleaning preparations: surface-active, whether or not containing soap (excluding those of heading no. 3401), put up for retail sale | $82.42M | 0.52% |
| 18 | 740329 | Copper: copper alloys n.e.c. in heading no. 7403 (other than master alloys of heading no. 7405) | $75.99M | 0.48% |
| 19 | 260300 | Copper ores and concentrates | $73.37M | 0.47% |
| 20 | 260800 | Zinc ores and concentrates | $65.50M | 0.42% |
| 21 | 100510 | Cereals: maize (corn), seed | $62.75M | 0.40% |
| 22 | 740811 | Copper: wire, of refined copper, of which the maximum cross-sectional dimension exceeds 6mm | $60.56M | 0.39% |
| 23 | 252210 | Quicklime: excluding calcium oxide and hydroxide of heading no. 2825 | $54.81M | 0.35% |
| 24 | 382499 | Chemical products, mixtures and preparations: n.e.c. heading 3824 | $53.35M | 0.34% |
| 25 | 190531 | Food preparations: sweet biscuits, whether or not containing cocoa | $52.07M | 0.33% |
| 26 | 282200 | Cobalt oxides and hydroxides: commercial cobalt oxides | $48.89M | 0.31% |
| 27 | 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) | $45.73M | 0.29% |
| 28 | 710813 | Metals: gold, semi-manufactured | $44.47M | 0.28% |
| 29 | 120190 | Soya beans: other than seed, whether or not broken | $44.39M | 0.28% |
| 30 | 252310 | Cement clinkers (whether or not coloured) | $42.23M | 0.27% |
| 31 | 310520 | Fertilizers, mineral or chemical: containing the three fertilizing elements nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium | $39.52M | 0.25% |
| 32 | 854449 | Insulated electric conductors: for a voltage not exceeding 1000 volts, not fitted with connectors | $37.69M | 0.24% |
| 33 | 220299 | Non-alcoholic beverages: other than non-alcoholic beer, n.e.c. in item no. 2202.10, not including fruit or vegetable juices of heading no. 2009 | $37.69M | 0.24% |
| 34 | 690740 | Finishing ceramics | $36.57M | 0.23% |
| 35 | 240110 | Tobacco, (not stemmed or stripped) | $35.72M | 0.23% |
| 36 | 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 | $32.76M | 0.21% |
| 37 | 360200 | Explosives, prepared: other than propellent powders | $31.89M | 0.20% |
| 38 | 170490 | Sugar confectionery: (excluding chewing gum, including white chocolate), not containing cocoa | $28.77M | 0.18% |
| 39 | 740319 | Copper: refined, unwrought, n.e.c. in item no. 7403.1 | $21.43M | 0.14% |
| 40 | 310240 | Fertilizers, mineral or chemical: ammonium nitrate with calcium carbonate or other inorganic non-fertilizing substances, mixtures thereof | $20.80M | 0.13% |
| 41 | 090421 | Spices: fruits of the genus Capsicum or Pimenta, dried, neither crushed nor ground | $20.55M | 0.13% |
| 42 | 190410 | Food preparations: obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products | $19.82M | 0.13% |
| 43 | 090111 | Coffee: not roasted or decaffeinated | $18.15M | 0.12% |
| 44 | 520100 | Cotton: not carded or combed | $18.07M | 0.11% |
| 45 | 200989 | Juice: of any single fruit or vegetable n.e.c. in heading no. 2009, unfermented, not containing added spirit, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter | $17.85M | 0.11% |
| 46 | 170199 | Sugars: sucrose, chemically pure, in solid form, not containing added flavouring or colouring matter | $17.11M | 0.11% |
| 47 | 252220 | Slaked lime: excluding calcium oxide and hydroxide of heading no. 2825 | $16.88M | 0.11% |
| 48 | 230990 | Dog or cat food: (not put up for retail sale), used in animal feeding | $16.68M | 0.11% |
| 49 | 110220 | Cereal flour: of maize (corn) | $16.42M | 0.10% |
| 50 | 283210 | Sulphites: of sodium | $14.97M | 0.10% |
| 51 | 720211 | Ferro-alloys: ferro-manganese, containing by weight more than 2% of carbon | $14.92M | 0.09% |
| 52 | 030787 | Molluscs: abalone (Haliotis spp.), whether in shell or not, dried, salted, in brine, or smoked, cooked or not before or during the smoking process | $14.67M | 0.09% |
| 53 | 780199 | Lead: unwrought, unrefined, not containing by weight antimony as the principal other element | $14.29M | 0.09% |
| 54 | 270112 | Coal: bituminous, whether or not pulverised, but not agglomerated | $13.20M | 0.08% |
| 55 | 843149 | Machinery: parts of machines handling earth, minerals or ores and n.e.c. in heading no. 8431 | $13.13M | 0.08% |
| 56 | 847480 | Machines: for agglomerating, shaping or moulding solid mineral fuels, ceramic paste, unhardened cements, plastering materials in powder or paste form, machines for forming foundry moulds of sand | $11.96M | 0.08% |
| 57 | 340111 | 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, for toilet use (including medicated products) | $11.40M | 0.07% |
| 58 | 170113 | Sugars: cane sugar, raw, in solid form, as specified in Subheading Note 2 to this chapter, not containing added flavouring or colouring matter | $11.39M | 0.07% |
| 59 | 010511 | Poultry: live, fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, weighing not more than 185g | $11.25M | 0.07% |
| 60 | 252921 | Fluorspar: containing by weight 97% or less of calcium fluoride | $10.47M | 0.07% |
| 61 | 740919 | Copper: plates and sheets, of a thickness exceeding 0.15mm, of refined copper, not in coils | $10.36M | 0.07% |
| 62 | 711299 | Waste and scrap of precious metals: waste and scrap of precious metals including metal clad with precious metals, other than that of gold and platinum and excluding ash which contains precious metal or precious metal compounds | $10.31M | 0.07% |
| 63 | 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 | $10.13M | 0.06% |
| 64 | 283010 | Sulphides: of sodium, whether or not chemically defined | $10.01M | 0.06% |
| 65 | 170410 | Sugar confectionery: chewing gum, whether or not sugar-coated, not containing cocoa | $9.96M | 0.06% |
| 66 | 720221 | Ferro-alloys: ferro-silicon, containing by weight more than 55% of silicon | $9.93M | 0.06% |
| 67 | 481910 | Paper and paperboard: cartons, boxes and cases, of corrugated paper or paperboard | $9.86M | 0.06% |
| 68 | 150790 | Vegetable oils: soya-bean oil and its fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | $9.69M | 0.06% |
| 69 | 440399 | Wood: in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared, untreated, n.e.c. in heading no. 4403 | $9.60M | 0.06% |
| 70 | 310590 | Fertilizers, mineral or chemical: n.e.c. in heading no. 3105 | $9.23M | 0.06% |
| 71 | 401180 | Rubber: new pneumatic tyres, of a kind used on construction, mining or industrial handling vehicles and machines | $9.14M | 0.06% |
| 72 | 740990 | Copper: plates, sheets and strip, of a thickness exceeding 0.15mm, of copper alloys (other than copper-zinc base alloys, copper-tin base alloys, copper-nickel base alloys or copper-nickel-zinc base alloys) | $8.77M | 0.06% |
| 73 | 230210 | Bran, sharps and other residues: of maize (corn), whether or not in the form of pellets, derived from the sifting, milling or other workings thereof | $8.68M | 0.06% |
| 74 | 040711 | Birds' eggs, in shell: fresh, fertilised eggs for incubation, of fowls of the species Gallus domesticus (domestic hens) | $8.43M | 0.05% |
| 75 | 120810 | Flours and meals: of soya beans | $8.01M | 0.05% |
| 76 | 340219 | Organic surface-active agents: whether or not put up for retail sale, n.e.c. in heading no. 3402 | $8.00M | 0.05% |
| 77 | 060311 | Flowers, cut: roses, flowers and buds of a kind suitable for bouquets or ornamental purposes, fresh | $7.40M | 0.05% |
| 78 | 390690 | Acrylic polymers: (other than polymethyl methacrylate), in primary forms | $6.90M | 0.04% |
| 79 | 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 | $6.82M | 0.04% |
| 80 | 330499 | Cosmetic and toilet preparations: n.e.c. in heading no. 3304, for the care of the skin (excluding medicaments, including sunscreen or sun tan preparations) | $6.72M | 0.04% |
| 81 | 732611 | Iron or steel: grinding balls and similar articles for mills, forged or stamped, but not further worked | $6.71M | 0.04% |
| 82 | 100590 | Cereals: maize (corn), other than seed | $6.58M | 0.04% |
| 83 | 760120 | Aluminium: unwrought, alloys | $5.96M | 0.04% |
| 84 | 630533 | Sacks and bags: of a kind used for the packing of goods, of man-made textile materials, of polyethylene or polypropylene strip or the like, not flexible intermediate bulk containers | $5.92M | 0.04% |
| 85 | 710399 | Stones: precious (other than diamonds) and semi-precious stones, (other than rubies, sapphires and emeralds), worked other than simply sawn or roughly shaped, not strung, mounted or set | $5.83M | 0.04% |
| 86 | 842951 | Front-end shovel loaders | $5.77M | 0.04% |
| 87 | 151219 | Vegetable oils: sunflower seed or safflower oil and their fractions, other than crude, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified | $5.75M | 0.04% |
| 88 | 392390 | Plastics: articles for the conveyance or packing of goods n.e.c. in heading no. 3923 | $5.68M | 0.04% |
| 89 | 190490 | Food preparations: cereal or cereal products (excluding maize), in grain form, pre-cooked or otherwise prepared | $5.67M | 0.04% |
| 90 | 810520 | Cobalt: mattes and other intermediate products of cobalt metallurgy, unwrought cobalt, powders | $5.56M | 0.04% |
| 91 | 842611 | Cranes: overhead travelling cranes on fixed support | $5.46M | 0.03% |
| 92 | 151620 | Vegetable fats and oils and their fractions: partly or wholly hydrogenated, inter-esterified, re-esterified or elaidinised, whether or not refined, but not further prepared | $5.31M | 0.03% |
| 93 | 730840 | Iron or steel: structures and parts thereof, props and similar equipment for scaffolding, shuttering or pit-propping | $5.24M | 0.03% |
| 94 | 120999 | Seeds: n.e.c. in heading 1209, of a kind used for sowing | $5.22M | 0.03% |
| 95 | 180690 | Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa: n.e.c. in chapter 18 | $5.14M | 0.03% |
| 96 | 721499 | Iron or non-alloy steel: bars and rods, hot-rolled, hot-drawn or hot-extruded, n.e.c. in heading no. 7214, other than of rectangular cross-section | $4.85M | 0.03% |
| 97 | 410320 | Hides and skins: raw, of reptiles (fresh or salted, dried, limed, pickled or otherwise preserved, but not tanned, parchment-dressed or further prepared), whether or not dehaired or split | $4.51M | 0.03% |
| 98 | 340399 | Lubricating preparations: other than for the treatment of textile and similar materials, not containing petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous minerals | $4.45M | 0.03% |
| 99 | 260200 | Manganese ores and concentrates, including ferruginous manganese ores and concentrates with a manganese content of 20% or more, calculated on the dry weight | $4.44M | 0.03% |
| 100 | 842952 | Mechanical shovels, excavators and shovel loaders: with a 360 degree revolving super structure | $4.44M | 0.03% |