Sub-Saharan Africa Compared by Economy > Trade > Imports > Spending on imports

DEFINITION: Imports of goods and services represent the value of all goods and other market services received from the rest of the world. They include the value of merchandise, freight, insurance, transport, travel, royalties, license fees, and other services, such as communication, construction, financial, information, business, personal, and government services. They exclude compensation of employees and investment income (formerly called factor services) and transfer payments.".

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#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
1	Liberia	172.61	2008
2	Seychelles	127.59	2009
3	Lesotho	111.74	2009
4	Djibouti	77.15	2007
5	Swaziland	76.47	2009
6	Zimbabwe	72.98	2005
7	Chad	70.1	2009
8	Cape Verde	65.4	2009
9	Mauritania	64.86	2007
10	Togo	62.45	2007
11	Namibia	59.89	2009
12	Mauritius	59.07	2009
13	Madagascar	51.83	2009
14	Guinea-Bissau	51.22	2002
15	The Gambia	50.13	2009
16	Burundi	46.98	2006
17	Angola	46.23	2009
18	Guinea	45.45	2009
19	Botswana	44.6	2009
20	Senegal	43.97	2009
21	Mozambique	43.79	2009
22	Equatorial Guinea	41.56	2009
23	Ghana	41.35	2009
24	Kenya	38.31	2009
25	Somalia	37.74	1990
26	Comoros	36.03	2009
27	Mali	35.58	2007
28	Uganda	34.64	2009
29	Cote d'Ivoire	33.75	2009
30	Gabon	33.31	2009
31	Zambia	31.14	2009
32	Cameroon	30.9	2009
33	Ethiopia	28.85	2009
34	Sierra Leone	28.53	2009
35	Benin	28.17	2009
36	South Africa	28.15	2009
37	Tanzania	27.5	2006
38	Nigeria	27.17	2009
39	Rwanda	27.05	2009
40	Burkina Faso	26.81	2006
41	Niger	24.77	2005
42	Malawi	23.13	2009
43	Central African Republic	22.4	2009
44	Democratic Republic of the Congo	21.73	2009
45	Sudan	20.83	2009
46	Eritrea	20.26	2009

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