Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what five African countries have the largest total value of trade with the UK.
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have, therefore, asked the Authority to respond.
Professor Sir Ian Diamond | National Statistician
The Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
House of Lords
London
SW1A 0PW
26 April 2021
Dear Lady Kennedy,
As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking what five African countries have the largest total value of trade with the UK (HL15101).
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes monthly ‘All countries statistics’[1]. Services data for 2021 Q1 are not currently available at a geographical level but will be published in August 2021. Tables 1 and 2 provide details of UK Trade in Goods imports and exports for the top five African countries. Please note that data are in current prices and, as such, include the effect of inflation.
Yours sincerely,
Professor Sir Ian Diamond
Table 1: Trade in Goods imports, top five African countries, seasonally adjusted, £ million
| Imports February 2021 |
South Africa | 714 |
Morocco | 93 |
Egypt | 92 |
Kenya | 37 |
Ivory Coast | 35 |
Source: ONS
Table 2: Trade in Goods exports, top five African countries, seasonally adjusted, £ million
| Exports February 2021 |
Egypt | 156 |
South Africa | 122 |
Nigeria | 81 |
Ghana | 40 |
Morocco | 39 |
Source: ONS
[1]https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/datasets/uktradeallcountriesseasonallyadjusted