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s $3.5bn 2 b non Africa Alain Tschudin Executive Director Survey Edited by Richard Jurgens Karen Ferguson, Researchers, 2015-2016 Jami Gavin, designers Stephen Johnson he Africa Survey 2015-2016 provides many new indicators in Kate van Niekerk T Leith Davis Designer Contributors to this issue Patience Akumu, Richard Chelin, Karen Ferguson, Paul Fish, Owen Businesses trading internationally, latest year Share of… - total exporting total total total Gagare, Frederico Links, Bheki total sales inputs Latest directly or sales sales inputs and/ inputs and trade exported of Country indirectly that are exported or supplies of foreign regulations year indirectly (at least 1% directly of foreign originb originb of sales)a originb constraint Algeria 2007 5.2% 98.5% 0.8% 0.7% 71.8% 53.3% 46.8% 36.1% Mashile, François Misser, Lukhona Angola 2010 5.8% 98.6% 0.4% 1.0% 60.7% 74.7% 25.3% 35.8% Benin 2009 12.8% 91.9% 2.7% 5.4% 55.8% 59.3% 40.7% 56.2% Botswana 2010 9.6% 96.6% 1.8% 1.6% 86.3% 38.4% 61.6% 15.8% Burkina Faso 2009 8.7% 97.2% 1.1% 1.6% 76.5% 48.0% 52.0% 42.6% Mnguni, Alfred Mthimkhulu, Collins Burundi 2006 2.1% 99.2% 0.6% 0.3% 78.5% 57.2% 42.8% 20.9% Cameroon 2009 9.3% 96.5% 1.8% 1.7% 63.2% 64.7% 35.3% 26.3% Cape Verde 2009 4.0% 97.0% 0.6% 2.4% 59.5% 53.1% 46.9% 27.2% Central African Republic 2011 15.1% 94.7% 3.0% 2.4% 85.1% 38.7% 61.3% 31.9% Chad 2009 11.8% 94.0% 3.0% 3.0% 67.6% 53.4% 46.6% 57.4% Mtika, Ray Ndlovu, Samuel Ntewusu, Comoros … … … … … … … … … Congo (DRC) 2013 9.0% 96.7% 1.7% 1.5% 48.6% 71.4% 28.6% 25.3% Congo (Rep.) 2009 9.0% 96.7% 1.3% 2.0% 60.9% 52.6% 47.4% 45.9% Côte d'Ivoire 2009 3.4% 98.7% 1.0% 0.3% 30.3% 80.7% 19.3% 19.4% Djibouti 2013 22.4% 87.6% 8.7% 3.7% 71.4% 36.7% 63.3% 21.8% Louise Redvers, Alain Tschudin, Egypt 2008 25.3% 89.9% 9.1% 1.0% 48.4% 75.2% 24.8% 22.5% Equatorial Guinea … … … … … … … … … Eritrea 2009 5.4% 96.9% 3.1% 0.0% 42.5% 76.0% 24.0% 2.0% Ethiopia 2011 6.5% 95.7% 2.4% 1.9% 54.9% 69.3% 30.7% 19.7% Eleanor Whitehead Gabon 2009 11.8% 95.1% 3.4% 1.6% 81.0% 41.3% 58.7% 35.1% Gambia 2006 8.6% 98.4% 1.0% 0.6% 63.2% 47.8% 52.2% 12.8% Ghana 2007 24.4% 91.8% 3.9% 4.3% 51.1% 73.4% 26.6% 9.8% Guinea 2006 14.7% 96.5% 2.1% 1.4% 66.1% 56.6% 43.4% 12.4% Guinea-Bissau 2006 6.4% 97.1% 2.2% 0.7% 68.4% 54.2% 45.8% 25.6% Kenya 2013 36.1% 77.7% 11.1% 11.3% 52.7% 73.4% 26.6% 22.1% Lesotho 2009 12.5% 93.0% 4.4% 2.6% 68.9% 41.5% 58.5% 21.7% Liberia 2009 1.0% 99.4% 0.0% 0.6% 56.8% 58.3% 41.7% 15.6% Libya … … … … … … … … … Madagascar 2009 15.6% 89.0% 8.1% 2.9% 67.0% 54.0% 46.0% 18.7% Malawi 2009 6.4% 97.3% 2.3% 0.4% 51.7% 66.9% 33.1% 11.0% About Good Governance Africa Mali 2010 10.5% 95.5% 1.6% 3.0% 59.0% 69.1% 30.9% 16.9% Mauritania 2006 8.8% 95.5% 3.5% 1.0% 66.8% 47.4% 52.6% 25.9% Mauritius 2009 14.6% 92.3% 4.1% 3.7% 56.0% 57.2% 42.8% 17.6% Morocco 2007 37.5% 72.9% 23.5% 3.6% 73.4% 48.3% 51.7% 14.3% Mozambique 2007 6.1% 97.8% 2.1% 0.0% 29.2% 80.5% 19.5% 12.2% Namibia 2006 9.2% 97.5% 1.7% 0.8% 83.0% 41.0% 59.0% 7.1% Niger 2009 10.6% 97.3% 1.1% 1.6% 96.4% 6.8% 93.2% 31.6% Nigeria 2007 2.0% 99.5% 0.4% 0.2% 28.1% 90.1% 9.9% 5.0% Rwanda 2011 6.0% 98.5% 1.4% 0.2% 74.6% 55.9% 44.1% 18.1% Founded in 2012, GGA is a registered São Tomé and Príncipe … … … … … … … … … Senegal 2007 13.4% 96.0% 3.4% 0.6% 45.8% 70.5% 29.5% 15.1% Seychelles … … … … … … … … … Sierra Leone 2009 3.2% 97.8% 0.2% 2.0% … … … 26.9% NPO with its SADC and Lusophone Somalia … … … … … … … … … South Africa 2007 18.4% 96.1% 2.5% 1.4% 37.8% 85.4% 14.6% 1.9% South Sudan … … … … … … … … … Africa Survey Sudan … … … … … … … … … Swaziland 2006 11.0% 94.1% 5.5% 0.4% 62.9% 56.7% 43.3% 16.5% Tanzania 2013 13.9% 93.2% 2.2% 4.6% 59.1% 69.2% 30.9% 38.3% Togo 2009 24.6% 84.2% 6.9% 8.9% 72.3% 39.6% 60.4% 27.5% Tunisia … … … … … … … … … Uganda 2013 14.3% 94.2% 0.9% 4.9% 40.6% 86.4% 13.6% 19.5% anyone researching or interested in Western Sahara … … … … … … … … … Zambia 2013 12.3% 94.4% 2.0% 3.6% 48.8% 73.4% 26.6% 8.6% Zimbabwe 2011 11.0% 97.7% 1.2% 1.1% 63.3% 67.3% 32.7% 7.1% Sub-Saharan Africa … 10.9 94.7% 2.6% 2.7% 62.1% 58.6% 41.4% 25.6% Source: World Bank, Enterprise Surveys, http://www.enterprisesurveys.org, accessed 02 July 2014 Business a Indirect exports are products sold domestically to a third party that exports them.