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Sierra Leone imports of Rice (HS 1006)

Where Sierra Leone buys rice: value, growth, unit value and the top suppliers, from official CEPII BACI statistics. World market for HS 1006 · Sierra Leone trade profile

Sierra Leone imports, 2024USD 234.6 millionSum over 15 supplying economies. Source: CEPII BACI.

Sierra Leone imports, 2023USD 151.1 millionSame partners, previous year. Source: CEPII BACI.

Growth+55.3%2024 against 2023, USD. Source: CEPII BACI.

Unit valueUSD 470 per tonneValue divided by quantity, flows with a reported quantity only (100.0% of the value). Source: CEPII BACI.

Trade companies in the directory5Active companies in wholesale and retail trade (NACE section G) in this economy, counts only. Source: AYBARION company directory, see the Data Passport.

Top suppliers

#	Supplier	Value 2024	Share	Growth	Record
1	India	USD 167.7 million	71.5%	+46.8%	BACI:SL:IN:1006:1:2024
2	Brazil	USD 29.2 million	12.4%	+190.4%	BACI:SL:BR:1006:1:2024
3	China	USD 18.0 million	7.7%	+15.4%	BACI:SL:CN:1006:1:2024
4	Uruguay	USD 8.0 million	3.4%	+34.3%	BACI:SL:UY:1006:1:2024
5	Pakistan	USD 4.9 million	2.1%	+4,874.5%	BACI:SL:PK:1006:1:2024
6	Thailand	USD 3.4 million	1.4%	+116.1%	BACI:SL:TH:1006:1:2024
7	Paraguay	USD 1.0 million	0.4%	−56.8%	BACI:SL:PY:1006:1:2024
8	Taiwan	USD 683,477	0.3%	+193.6%	BACI:SL:TW:1006:1:2024
9	South Korea	USD 662,400	0.3%	not available	BACI:SL:KR:1006:1:2024
10	United States	USD 474,920	0.2%	−48.2%	BACI:SL:US:1006:1:2024

Source: CEPII BACI HS22 V202601, year 2024 (growth against 2023), USD. Shares of the Sierra Leone total over the partners BACI lists. Record IDs per row.

Trade companies: active companies registered in wholesale and retail trade (NACE section G) in Sierra Leone, counted in the AYBARION company directory. The matching wholesale activity for this product is Wholesale of grain, unmanufactured tobacco, seeds and animal feeds (NACE 4621). Counts only.

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Data Passport

CEPII BACI HS22 V202601: trade values by exporter, importer and product, years 2024 and 2023, USD at FOB prices, quantities in metric tons. Publisher: CEPII. Licence: Etalab Open Licence 2.0 (Licence Ouverte), attribution "CEPII BACI". Record IDs: BACI:reporter:product:flow:year. Source
AYBARION company directory: counts of active companies registered in wholesale and retail trade (NACE Rev.2 section G), from official registers and open datasets, built 2026-10-22. Counts only: no names, addresses or contacts are shown here. Sources under share-alike licences (CC BY-SA) or with an unverified licence are not counted, and no company data is offered for countries under comprehensive sanctions.
Method: Values are CEPII BACI reconciled flows of Sierra Leone with each partner, aggregated from HS6 to HS4; the total is the sum over partners; shares divide each partner by that total; growth compares 2024 with 2023; unit value is value divided by quantity over flows that report a quantity. Peru and the Philippines are left out of lists and totals by policy.

Trade database built 2026-10-24. Values are official statistics as published; nothing on this page is estimated or invented. More in our methodology.

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