African Trade Heatmaps 2025

This brief provides a visual overview of Africa's merchandise trade landscape through heatmaps. It highlights key trade patterns and concentrations among trading partners, product categories, and regional blocs. Using data from 2023 and 2024, the analysis focuses on African trade flows, bilateral trade intensity, and the distribution of traded products at both country and regional levels. The heatmaps are two-dimensional matrices which provide a clear visualisation of trade values and shares including products traded, facilitating the identification of major trade corridors, regional integration trends, and trade specialisations specific to various sectors.