Cocoa products, including paste, butter, and beans dominated the US' agricultural imports from Sub-Saharan Africa in 2024, making up nearly one-third of the total.
Other major import categories included coffee, seafood, oilseed meals, and tree nuts, rounding out the top six.
The top 10 agricultural imports accounted for 74% of all the US' agricultural imports from the region.
Each of the top 10 products had an import value exceeding $120 million.
From SSA, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana were the leading suppliers of cocoa products to the US in 2024.
The top three products together represented 41% of the total agricultural imports from the region.
Since the 1950s, the top sources of international students in the US have changed, with Canada initially leading, followed by Iran in the 1970s, Taiwan and Japan in the 1980s and 90s, and China and India taking the lead from the 2000s onward.
China and India account for a combined 54% of the total international students in the US as of the 2023/2024 academic year.
By 2021, Nigeria entered the top ten, reaching 7th place by 2024.
The population of Nigerian-born immigrants in the US has more than doubled in nearly two decades, growing at an average rate of 4.8% per year.
By 2023, the number reached 476k, up from just under 200k in 2006 — a 141% growth.
Nigeria has been leading Africa in immigrant numbers in the US, ranking 22nd globally.
Rising immigrant numbers could strengthen remittance flows back to Nigeria.
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