Annual International Trade Statistics by Country (HS)
Publication date: 2024-01-28
Reporting period: 2002 - 2023
Timeseries: 194 million
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Kuwait | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2010 - 2021

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TOTAL. ALL COMMODITIESKuwaitWorldExportsValue (US$)62,698,237,006.00102,695,762,451.00114,404,079,435.00101,131,954,619.0054,120,957,085.6246,235,357,009.1754,991,871,282.1271,941,444,555.0064,482,096,620.0040,166,147,337.0063,129,693,952.00
Value Growth, YoY (%)20.7263.79-11.60-46.48-14.5718.9330.82-10.36-37.7057.17
ImportsValue (US$)22,691,403,866.0025,141,991,714.0029,645,607,309.0031,488,655,172.0030,957,201,416.5130,784,103,261.4533,597,829,177.3735,866,655,317.0033,530,892,789.0028,344,378,640.0031,885,707,161.00
Value Growth, YoY (%)10.796.21-1.68-0.559.146.75-6.51-15.4612.49

The value of merchandise exports from Kuwait totalled $ 63 billion in 2021. Merchandise exports from Kuwait increased by 57% compared to 2020. Goods exports grew up by $ 22 billion in 2021 (the value of merchandise exports from Kuwait amounted to $40 billion in 2020)

Kuwait's exports 2021 by country

Top export destinations of commodities from Kuwait in 2021:

  • Areas, nes with a share of 91% (57 billion US$)
  • United Arab Emirates with a share of 1.27% (804 million US$)
  • Saudi Arabia with a share of 1.15% (727 million US$)
  • China with a share of 1.12% (712 million US$)
  • India with a share of 1.11% (701 million US$)
  • Iraq - 505 million US$
  • Pakistan - 312 million US$
  • Qatar - 279 million US$
  • Oman - 145 million US$
  • Jordan - 129 million US$

Exports structure from Kuwait in 2021 represented by the following main commodity groups:

  • 91% (57 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
  • 2.63% (1.66 billion US$): 29 - Organic chemicals
  • 1.7% (1.07 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
  • 0.652% (412 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
  • 0.407% (257 million US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
  • 0.344% (217 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
  • 0.251% (159 million US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
  • 0.16% (101 million US$): 04 - Dairy produce; birds eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
  • 0.148% (93 million US$): 33 - Essential oils and resinoids; perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations
  • 0.147% (93 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel

What did Kuwait export in 2021?

Kuwait's Top Exports in 2021:

  • 66% ($41 billion): 2709 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude
  • 20% ($13.1 billion): 2710 - Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, not crude; preparations n.e.c. containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or oils from bituminous minerals; these being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils
  • 4.68% ($2.95 billion): 2711 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons
  • 1.6% ($1.01 billion): 2904 - Sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives of hydrocarbons, whether or not halogenated
  • 1.19% ($754 million): 8703 - Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons (other than those of heading 87.02), including station wagons and racing cars
  • 1.01% ($642 million): 2905 - Acyclic alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
  • 0.401% ($253 million): 3901 - Polymers of ethylene, in primary forms
  • 0.286% ($180 million): 8704 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods
  • 0.251% ($158 million): 7207 - Semi-finished products of iron or non-alloy steel
  • 0.143% ($90 million): 3902 - Polymers of propylene or of other olefins, in primary forms

The value of merchandise imports to Kuwait totalled $ 31 billion in 2021. Merchandise imports to Kuwait increased by 12.4% compared to 2020. Goods imports grew up by $ 3.54 billion in 2021 (the value of merchandise imports to Kuwait was equal to $28 billion in 2020)

Kuwait's imports 2021 by country

Top trading partners (import sources) of Kuwait in 2021:

  • China with a share of 17.9% (5.73 billion US$)
  • United Arab Emirates with a share of 11.8% (3.78 billion US$)
  • USA with a share of 7.98% (2.54 billion US$)
  • Japan with a share of 5.76% (1.83 billion US$)
  • Saudi Arabia with a share of 5.31% (1.69 billion US$)
  • India with a share of 5.24% (1.67 billion US$)
  • Germany with a share of 4.4% (1.4 billion US$)
  • Italy with a share of 3.8% (1.21 billion US$)
  • United Kingdom with a share of 2.36% (754 million US$)
  • Turkey with a share of 2.36% (753 million US$)

Imports structure to Kuwait in 2021 represented by the following main commodity groups:

  • 12.4% (3.97 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
  • 9.16% (2.92 billion US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
  • 8.14% (2.59 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
  • 7.17% (2.28 billion US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
  • 5.22% (1.66 billion US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
  • 3.08% (983 million US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
  • 2.9% (927 million US$): 61 - Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted
  • 2.82% (900 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel
  • 2.62% (838 million US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
  • 2.42% (773 million US$): 94 - Furniture; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings; lamps and lighting fittings, n.e.s.; illuminated signs, illuminated name-plates and the like; prefabricated buildings

What did Kuwait import in 2021?

Kuwait's Top Imports in 2021:

  • 9.25% ($2.95 billion): 8703 - Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons (other than those of heading 87.02), including station wagons and racing cars
  • 4.31% ($1.37 billion): 8517 - Electrical apparatus for line telephony or line telegraphy, including line telephone sets with cordless handsets and telecommunication apparatus for carrier-current line systems or for digital line systems; videophones
  • 3.74% ($1.19 billion): 7113 - Articles of jewellery and parts thereof, of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal
  • 3.5% ($1.11 billion): 3004 - Medicaments (excluding goods of heading 30.02, 30.05 or 30.06) consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, put up in measured doses (including those in the form of transdermal administration systems) or in forms or packings for retail sale
  • 3.24% ($1.03 billion): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
  • 1.56% ($497 million): 8704 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods
  • 1.47% ($470 million): 3002 - Human blood; animal blood for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses; antisera, other blood fractions, immunological products, modified or obtained by biotechnological processes; vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) etc
  • 1.24% ($397 million): 8471 - Automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included
  • 1.1% ($352 million): 9403 - Other furniture and parts thereof
  • 0.961% ($306 million): 7304 - Tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, seamless, of iron (other than cast iron) or steel.

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Kuwait | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2010 - 2021