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Browse additional economic indicators and data sets, selected by Global Finance editors, to learn more about Togo 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.
USD 5.4 billion (2018, estimate)
Intl$ 14 billion (2018, estimate)
2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017* | 2018* |
5.9% | 5.7% | 5.6% | 4.4% | 4.7% |
*Estimate
(2018 estimate)
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018* | 2019* |
1.8% | 0.9% | -0.2% | 0.9% | 3.8% |
*Estimate
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018* | 2019* |
72.1% | 81.4% | 76% | 76.2% | 72.6% |
*Estimate
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018* | 2019* |
-8.8% | -9.5% | -0.3% | -0.8% | -2.7% |
*Estimate
Standard & Poor's: B
Moody's: N/A
Standard & Poor's / Moody's (Updated January 2017)
-4.9% (2018 estimate)
31.5% (2018)
0.01% (2018)
0.009% (2018)
Reexports, cotton, phosphates, coffee, cocoa
Machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum products
Benin 16.7%, Burkina Faso 15.2%, Niger 8.9%, India 7.3%, Mali 6.7%, Ghana 5.5%, Cote dIvoire 5.4%, Nigeria 4.1% (2017)
China 27.5%, France 9.1%, Netherlands 4.4%, Japan 4.3% (2017)
2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
USD -46 million | USD 88 million | USD 102 million |
2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
USD 257 million | USD -32 million | USD 259 million |
N/A
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N/A
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Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business. A high ease of doing business ranking means the regulatory environment is more conducive to the starting and operation of a local firm.
Overall ranking: 97 out of 190 countries (2019)
Subcategories:
Starting a Business: 15 out of 190 countries
Dealing with Construction Permits: 127 out of 190 countries
Getting Electricity: 99 out of 190 countries
Registering Property: 56 out of 190 countries
Getting Credit: 48 out of 190 countries
Protecting Minority Investors: 120 out of 190 countries
Paying Taxes: 174 out of 190 countries
Trading across Borders: 131 out of 190 countries
Enforcing Contracts: 140 out of 190 countries
Resolving Insolvency: 88 out of 190 countries
Ranking: 158 / Score: 50.3 (Mostly unfree) (2019)
(100=totally free 0=totally repressed)
French (official, the language of commerce), Ewe and Mina (the two major African languages in the south), Kabye (sometimes spelled Kabiye) and Dagomba (the two major African languages in the north)
Christian 43.7%, folk 35.6%, Muslim 14%, none 6.2%, Hindu <.1%, Buddhist <.1%, Jewish <.1% (2010 est.)
1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020* |
3.79 million | 4.97 million | 6.5 million | 7.42 million | 8.4 million |
*Estimate
1960 | 1980 | 2000 | 2018 |
10.1% | 24.7% | 32.9% | 41.7% |
Total population: 63.7%
Male: 77.3%
Female: 51.2% (2015 est.)
(age 15 and over can read and write)
73.2% (2015)
43.1 (2015)
(0=perfect equality, 100=absolute inequality)
Political Rights: 5
Civil Liberties: 4 (2019)
(1 represents the most free, 7 the least free rating)
Fixed 0.5% Mobile 77.9% (2018)
(fixed-telephone subscribers and mobile-cellular subscribers)