
Trade Finance In Wartime
The huge drop-off in trade involving Russia and Ukraine has hit trade finance hard.
Browse additional economic indicators and data sets, selected by Global Finance editors, to learn more about Niger economic outlook, debt to GDP ratio, international trade performance and population trends.
The financial system in Africa varies from the highly developed banking institutions of South Africa and Nigeria to the barely organized banking sector of South Sudan, the world’s newest country.
2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017* | 2018* |
7.5% | 4.3% | 4.9% | 4.9% | 5.2% |
*Estimate
(2016 estimate)
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018* | 2019* |
1% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 2.7% | -1.3% |
*Estimate
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018* | 2019* |
39.9% | 44.6% | 54.4% | 53.8% | 55.8% |
*Estimate
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018* | 2019* |
9% | -6.1% | -5.7% | -4.1% | -4.2% |
*Estimate
Standard & Poor's: N/A
Moody's: N/A
Standard & Poor's / Moody's (Updated January 2017)
-18.1% (2018 estimate)
16.6% (2015)
0.01% (2018)
0.004% (2018)
Uranium ore, livestock, cowpeas, onions
Foodstuffs, machinery, vehicles and parts, petroleum, cereals
France 30.2%, Thailand 18.3%, Malaysia 9.9%, Nigeria 8.3%, Mali 5%, Switzerland 4.9% (2017)
France 28.8%, China 14.4%, Malaysia 5.7%, Nigeria 5.4%, Thailand 5.3%, US 5.1%, India 4.9% (2017)
2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
USD 301 million | USD 338 million | USD 460 million |
2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
USD 40 million | USD 29 million | USD 44 million |
N/A
N/A
Overall ranking: 132 out of 190 countries
Starting a Business: 56 out of 190 countries
Dealing with Construction Permits: 180 out of 190 countries
Getting Electricity: 159 out of 190 countries
Registering Property: 115 out of 190 countries
Getting Credit: 48 out of 190 countries
Protecting Minority Investors: 120 out of 190 countries
Paying Taxes: 169 out of 190 countries
Trading across Borders: 126 out of 190 countries
Enforcing Contracts: 114 out of 190 countries
Resolving Insolvency: 114 out of 190 countries
World Bank - Doing Business 2019
Muslim 99.3%, Christian .3%, animist .2%, none .1% (2012 est.)
1990 | 2000 | 2010* | 2015* | 2020* |
8.2 million | 11.3 million | 16.5 million | 20 million | 24.2 million |
*Estimate
1960 | 1980 | 2000 | 2018 |
15.4% | 22% | 34.8% | 50.3% |
Total population: 19.1%
Male: 27.3%
Female: 11%
Definition: age 15 and over can read and write (2015 est.)
76.9% (2014 estimate)
34.3 (2014)
(0=perfect equality, 100=absolute inequality)
Partly Free
Political Rights: 4
Civil Liberties: 4 (2019)
(1 represents the most free, 7 the least free rating)
Fixed: 0.5% Mobile: 40.6% (2017) (fixed-telephone subscribers and mobile-cellular subscribers)