Togo-India: bilateral trade was valued at $3.48 billion in 2025
(Togo First) - Economic relations between Togo and India represent a total volume of $3.48 billion in 2025, in terms of trade, according to data communicated by the Indian embassy in Lomé. This level places Togo 32nd among India's trading partners.
These figures are part of a context of increasing trade between the two partners, with India which today represents the leading destination for Togolese exports outside West Africa. In certain quarters, it even represented the leading world market for Togolese products.
These flows between the two partners cover several sectors, including raw materials, industry and services. Alongside trade, India's economic presence is strengthening on the ground. Several Indian companies have established production units or expanded their existing capacities in Togo, in line with the national local processing strategy.
As an illustration, in 2023, from the Togolese point of view, exports to India are concentrated in value and in kind. They amounted to approximately $619 million, according to data available on the Atlas of Economic Complexity from Harvard University, against a backdrop of asymmetry between the two countries. For this period, Togolese exports were concentrated on natural calcium phosphates ($308 million), followed by re-exported petroleum products ($81 million), then agricultural and forestry products such as soybeans and soybean oil, sawn wood, as well as more modest volumes of metal scraps and raw cotton.
In terms of imports, Togo acquired goods from India worth approximately $3.6 billion, dominated by refined petroleum products (nearly $3 billion), supplemented by significant volumes of rice ($327 million) and by manufactured goods, textiles, machinery and chemicals.
If these exchanges show a marked trade imbalance in favor of India, the Asian country's investments have generated jobs and support the objective of the Togolese authorities to develop a more integrated industrial base, particularly within the Adétikopé Industrial Platform.
In the medium term, the two countries are banking on targeted cooperation in renewable energies and climate action and display the objective of strengthening their economic partnership.
