Togo

Togo is a small, narrow West African economy dependent on agriculture and on its port, which serves as a regional trade and transit hub for landlocked neighbors.

Phosphate mining and the deep-water port of Lome are key, and the government has sought investment and reform, though poverty is widespread and politics dominated by one family since 1967.

Key Sectors

The economy rests on subsistence and cash-crop agriculture (cotton, coffee, cocoa), phosphate mining, and the port of Lome, a major regional logistics and re-export hub.