{"id":54977,"date":"2025-07-22T15:59:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T15:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-s-trade-hits-nearly-2-billion-in-first-quarter-of-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T16:02:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T16:02:32","slug":"rwanda-s-trade-hits-nearly-2-billion-in-first-quarter-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-s-trade-hits-nearly-2-billion-in-first-quarter-of-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda\u2019s trade hits nearly $2 billion in first quarter of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

In its latest quarterly report released on July 21, 2025, NISR highlighted that Rwanda\u2019s exports stood at $480.82 million, while imports into the country were valued at $1.379 billion.<\/p>\n

Compared to the same period in 2024, Rwanda’s exports grew by 11.40% in Q1 2025. However, when compared to the fourth quarter of 2024, exports dropped by 29.02%.<\/p>\n

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) emerged as Rwanda\u2019s top export destination, receiving goods worth $288.75 million. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) followed with $54.96 million, while China, Luxembourg, and the United States came next with $23.45 million, $11.98 million, and $10.73 million respectively.<\/p>\n

Regionally, Uganda ranked second after the DRC, importing Rwandan goods worth $5.88 million, followed by Burundi at $3.74 million.<\/p>\n

The DRC also received the highest value of re-exported goods through Rwanda, totaling $127.14 million representing a massive 93.91% of all re-exports, which stood at $135.39 million.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the value of Rwanda\u2019s imports slightly dropped by 2.23% in Q1 2025 compared to the same quarter in 2024, and by 15.36% compared to Q4 of last year.<\/p>\n

China was Rwanda\u2019s top import partner, sending goods worth $338.53 million. Tanzania followed with $151.30 million, Kenya with $135.35 million, India with $115.65 million, and the UAE with $81.09 million.<\/p>\n

Despite the impressive numbers, Rwanda\u2019s overall trade volume decreased by 0.99% in Q1 2025 compared to the same period in 2024, which had reached $2.015 billion. It also saw a 29.02% drop compared to Q4 2024, which had recorded $2.484 billion.<\/p>\n

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The National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) has revealed that Rwanda’s trade with international markets reached a total value of $1.995 billion in the first quarter of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000091334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-54977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000091334,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/okay-9.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/okay-9.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/okay-9.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/okay-9.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/okay-9.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/okay-9.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000091334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54977"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=54977"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=54977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}