Togo-India Trade Reaches $3.48 Billion in 2025

Economic governance

Thursday, 29 January 2026 11:28

Togo-India Trade Reaches $3.48 Billion in 2025

(Togo First) - Economic relations between Togo and India generated total trade of $3.48 billion in 2025, according to data from the Indian Embassy in Lomé. This level of trade makes Togo India’s 32nd largest commercial partner.

These figures reflect steadily growing exchanges between the two countries. India is now the main destination for Togolese exports outside West Africa, and in some quarters it has even been the largest global market for Togolese products.

Trade flows span several sectors, including raw materials, industry, and services. At the same time, India’s economic presence in Togo is expanding. Several Indian companies have set up production units or increased their existing capacities in the country, in line with Togo’s national strategy to promote local processing and transformation.

In 2023, Togo’s exports to India remained highly concentrated in both value and product range, amounting to around $619 million, according to data from Harvard University’s Atlas of Economic Complexity, highlighting the asymmetry between the two economies. During that period, exports were dominated by natural calcium phosphates ($308 million), followed by petroleum products re-exported via Togo ($81 million), and then agricultural and forestry products such as soybeans and soybean oil, sawn wood, as well as smaller volumes of metal scrap and raw cotton.

On the import side, Togo purchased about $3.6 billion worth of goods from India. These imports were dominated by refined petroleum products, at nearly $3 billion, followed by rice worth $327 million, along with manufactured goods, textiles, machinery, and chemical products.

While these exchanges reveal a marked trade imbalance in India’s favor, Indian investments have created jobs and support the Togolese authorities’ objective of developing a more integrated industrial base, notably through the Adétikopé Industrial Platform.

In the medium term, the two countries are also seeking to develop targeted cooperation in renewable energy and climate action, with the aim of further strengthening their economic partnership.

Ayi Renaud Dossavi

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