Goods exports from Portuguese-speaking countries to Macau reached a new historic high in 2025, according to official data released on Friday, January 30.
The value exported from Lusophone markets to the territory reached €152.9 million, 6.4% higher than in 2024, according to the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) of Macau. This figure is also the highest since the agency began collecting data on foreign trade in 1998, surpassing the previous record of €148.5 million set in 2023.
Most of Macau’s trade with Portuguese-speaking countries in 2025 came from Brazil, amounting to €122.1 million, 10.2% more than the previous year, primarily consisting of meat, fish, and seafood.
Macau also imported goods from Portugal valued at €30.3 million, 3.5% less than in 2024, mainly including clothing and accessories, meat, fish and seafood, alcoholic beverages, and pharmaceutical products.
According to official data, Portuguese-speaking countries purchased goods from Macau valued at €311,000, 39.9% less than the previous year. Lusophone markets represented only 1.06% of the territory’s total foreign trade in 2025. This is despite China having established the Macau Special Administrative Region as a platform to strengthen economic and trade cooperation with Portuguese-speaking countries in 2003 and, in the same year, creating the Macau Forum.
The bloc includes, besides China, the countries of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP): Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe, Timor-Leste, and, since 2022, Equatorial Guinea.
Macau’s goods exports to the world totaled €1.45 billion in 2025, an increase of 3.2%, according to DSEC. However, exports remain far below the value of imported goods, which reached €13 billion, a decrease of 3% year-on-year.
Macau’s trade balance deficit stood at €11.5 billion, 3.5% lower than the previous year, marking the lowest level since 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Source: Diário Económico
