Togo economy: GDP, investment, trade and remittances
How large the Togo economy is and how fast it is growing, who invests in it, what it sells and buys, how much its citizens abroad send home, who it owes and what it holds in reserve. The latest published year is shown with each figure.
Togo economy snapshot: GDP, growth and income per person
Togo's GDP was US$11.9 billion in 2025, after real growth of 6.3%.
GDP
Current US dollars.
Real GDP growth
Annual change, per cent. Red bars are contractions.
GDP per person
Current US dollars.
Source: World Bank, 2025. Method
Who invests in Togo and in what
Direct investment by investing country
South Africa was the largest investing country in Togo, at 36% of inward direct investment positions in 2022.
Inward direct investment positions in Togo at the end of 2022: the stock of foreign direct investment, not a year's new flow. The 10 largest investing countries.
Source: IMF, 2022. Method
What Togo sells and buys
Salt, sulphur, earth and stone was 22% of exports in 2025.
Togo sold the most to India, 19% of exports in 2025.
Exports by product, 2025
Tile area follows value. Each tile is a customs chapter of the Harmonized System; hover for the full name.
Source: UN Comtrade, 2025. Method
Top buyers, 2025
Share of Togo's exports.
Top suppliers, 2025
Share of Togo's imports.
Source: UN Comtrade, 2025. Method
What Togo buys, 2025
The 8 largest product chapters in imports.
Source: UN Comtrade, 2025. Method
Trade balance of goods
Exports minus imports. Red bars are years when imports were larger. A year is left out when either side is not published.
Source: UN Comtrade, 2025. Method
Remittances against foreign direct investment in Togo
Foreign direct investment net inflows were negative in 2016, 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022: more investment left Togo than came in.
Source: World Bank, 2026. Method
Remittances and investment as a share of GDP
The same two flows measured against the size of the economy.
Source: World Bank, 2026. Method
Who Togo owes
External debt stock by type of creditor. Creditor types cover public and publicly guaranteed debt; the grey part is the rest of the total external debt stock. A creditor type with no published figure is not shown.
Multilateral creditors held 32% of Togo's external debt stock in 2024.
Public external debt owed to China was US$330 million in 2024, 8% of the external debt stock.
Source: World Bank, 2026. Method
Reserves and months of import cover
Total reserves including gold, and how many months of imports they cover.
No reserves figures for Togo are not published by the World Bank, so none are shown.
Source: World Bank, 2026. Method
Aid received by Togo
Net official development assistance and official aid received.
Source: World Bank, 2026. Method
More on Togo
World Bank data pages for Togo: GDP, GDP growth, GDP per person, remittances, foreign direct investment, reserves, months of imports, external debt, debt by creditor, aid. UN Comtrade: trade data. IMF: direct investment positions.