Business & Markets · Fuel exports · Benin
Benin’s fuel exports fell to 0% of merchandise exports in 2024.
0% of merchandise exports
2024
Down 0 pp from 2023.
Updated 8 Oct 2026
In plain words
0% of merchandise exports
What it is. This measure takes the value of fuel exports, such as crude oil, refined products, gas and coal, and divides it by the value of all goods the country sells abroad. It shows how far a country's export income depends on energy. It covers goods only, so services such as transport and tourism sit outside it.
Neither way is good in itself. A high share ties export income to world energy prices, while a low share means earnings rest on other products, and either can suit a given economy. Benin's latest figure, for 2024, is 0% of merchandise exports, the same as a year earlier. Since 2015 the highest reading was 0.05% of merchandise exports, in 2016. The 2024 figure matches the lowest in that span.
Why it matters. Benin's goods export earnings come from products other than fuel, so swings in world oil and gas prices barely touch them. Firms selling abroad and the state's trade receipts depend on other sectors. Fuel would need to appear in Benin's export statistics for this share to move.
| Period | Fuel exports · Benin |
|---|---|
| 2015 | 0.01% of merchandise exports |
| 2016 | 0.05% of merchandise exports |
| 2017 | 0.03% of merchandise exports |
| 2018 | 0% of merchandise exports |
| 2019 | 0.02% of merchandise exports |
| 2020 | 0.01% of merchandise exports |
| 2021 | 0% of merchandise exports |
| 2022 | 0% of merchandise exports |
| 2023 | 0% of merchandise exports |
| 2024 | 0% of merchandise exports |
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0) · Licence: CC BY 4.0
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Strata-AF™ Data, Fuel exports, Benin, 2024; source World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0), retrieved 8 Oct 2026; https://data.strata-af.com/business/fuel-exports/benin
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Fuel exports as a share of merchandise exports. Unit: % of merchandise exports.
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (series TX.VAL.FUEL.ZS.UN), retrieved through the World Bank API and published under CC BY 4.0. Updated annually; the World Bank's own source notes apply.