Togo ranked as Ghana’s largest informal trading partner, accounting for almost GH¢1.8 billion of informal cross-border trade in the fourth quarter of 2024. This is according to new data from the Ghana Statistical Service. The data comes from Ghana’s first national Informal Cross-Border Trade (ICBT) Survey, which tracked unrecorded trade between Ghana and its three land neighbours – Togo, Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire. The report shows that Togo recorded the highest volume of informal trade with Ghana, representing 61.2% of all informal trade activity between the two countries. However, Ghana recorded a trade deficit with Togo, meaning it imported more than it exported. Cooking oil was identified as the main imported product from both Togo and Côte d’Ivoire, while soft drinks were the top informal export from Ghana to Togo. Other popular imports from Togo included rice, mattresses, and livestock, showing the country’s strong role in supplying consumer and food products to Ghana’s...