Annual International Trade Statistics by Country (HS)
Publication date: 2024-01-28
Reporting period: 2002 - 2022
Timeseries: 194 million
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Saudi Arabia | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2008 - 2019

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TOTAL. ALL COMMODITIESSaudi ArabiaWorldExportsValue (US$)312,999,364,049.00191,810,272,744.00250,577,015,621.00364,139,418,640.00387,373,982,617.00375,360,918,001.00341,947,182,544.00203,688,802,561.01183,604,286,533.01221,835,062,773.81294,535,553,148.14251,800,016,999.85
Value Growth, YoY (%)34.41-38.7130.6345.326.38-3.10-8.90-40.43-9.8620.8232.77-14.50
ImportsValue (US$)112,273,148,075.0092,457,155,434.00103,621,530,060.00127,962,726,620.00151,260,012,541.00163,013,498,700.00168,239,638,203.00174,785,637,598.38140,169,249,878.01134,519,129,744.81135,211,178,073.92144,334,467,853.72
Value Growth, YoY (%)27.84-17.6412.0723.4918.207.773.203.89-19.80-4.030.516.74

The value of merchandise exports from Saudi Arabia totalled $ 251 billion in 2019. Overall commodity exports from Saudi Arabia decreased by 14.5% compared to 2018. Merchandise exports decreased by $ 42 billion (the value of merchandise exports from Saudi Arabia amounted to $294 billion in 2018)

Saudi Arabia's exports 2019 by country

Top export destinations of commodities from Saudi Arabia in 2019:

  • Areas, nes with a share of 80% (202 billion US$)
  • China with a share of 3.7% (9.33 billion US$)
  • United Arab Emirates with a share of 1.73% (4.37 billion US$)
  • India with a share of 1.49% (3.77 billion US$)
  • Singapore with a share of 1.35% (3.41 billion US$)
  • Turkey - 1.99 billion US$
  • Belgium - 1.82 billion US$
  • Egypt - 1.68 billion US$
  • Kuwait - 1.62 billion US$
  • Malaysia - 1.36 billion US$

Exports structure from Saudi Arabia in 2019 represented by the following main commodity groups:

  • 80% (202 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
  • 7.53% (18.9 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
  • 5.02% (12.6 billion US$): 29 - Organic chemicals
  • 0.945% (2.37 billion US$): 28 - Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes
  • 0.844% (2.12 billion US$): 76 - Aluminum and articles thereof
  • 0.449% (1.13 billion US$): 31 - Fertilizers
  • 0.442% (1.11 billion US$): 04 - Dairy produce; birds eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
  • 0.287% (724 million US$): 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
  • 0.28% (705 million US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
  • 0.277% (699 million US$): 72 - Iron and steel

What did Saudi Arabia export in 2019?

Saudi Arabia's Top Exports in 2019:

  • 3.83% ($9.66 billion): 3901 - Polymers of ethylene, in primary forms
  • 2.27% ($5.73 billion): 3902 - Polymers of propylene or of other olefins, in primary forms
  • 1.51% ($3.81 billion): 2909 - Ethers, ether-alcohols, ether-phenols, ether-alcohol-phenols, alcohol peroxides, ether peroxides, ketone peroxides (chemically defined or not); halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated, nitrosated derivative
  • 1.16% ($2.93 billion): 2905 - Acyclic alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
  • 1.13% ($2.84 billion): 2902 - Cyclic hydrocarbons
  • 0.787% ($1.98 billion): 2814 - Ammonia, anhydrous or in aqueous solution.
  • 0.552% ($1.39 billion): 3907 - Polyacetals, other polyethers and epoxide resins, in primary forms; polycarbonates, alkyd resins, polyallyl esters and other polyesters, in primary forms
  • 0.438% ($1.1 billion): 3102 - Mineral or chemical fertilisers, nitrogenous
  • 0.384% ($967 million): 7601 - Unwrought aluminium

The value of merchandise imports to Saudi Arabia totalled $ 144 billion in 2019. Merchandise imports to Saudi Arabia increased by 6.74% compared to 2018. Goods imports grew up by $ 9.12 billion in 2019 (the value of merchandise imports to Saudi Arabia was equal to $135 billion in 2018)

Saudi Arabia's imports 2019 by country

Top trading partners (import sources) of Saudi Arabia in 2019:

  • China with a share of 18.7% (27 billion US$)
  • USA with a share of 11.8% (17 billion US$)
  • United Arab Emirates with a share of 7.18% (10.3 billion US$)
  • Germany with a share of 4.85% (7 billion US$)
  • Japan with a share of 4.53% (6.54 billion US$)
  • India with a share of 4.49% (6.48 billion US$)
  • France with a share of 3.48% (5.02 billion US$)
  • Italy with a share of 2.98% (4.3 billion US$)
  • Korea with a share of 2.79% (4.02 billion US$)
  • United Kingdom with a share of 2.13% (3.08 billion US$)

Imports structure to Saudi Arabia in 2019 represented by the following main commodity groups:

  • 11.6% (16.8 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
  • 10.3% (14.9 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
  • 9.95% (14.3 billion US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
  • 5.98% (8.64 billion US$): 99 - Commodities not specified according to kind
  • 3.8% (5.49 billion US$): 89 - Ships, boats and floating structures
  • 3.67% (5.3 billion US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
  • 2.88% (4.16 billion US$): 72 - Iron and steel
  • 2.69% (3.89 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
  • 2.62% (3.79 billion US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
  • 2.6% (3.76 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof

What did Saudi Arabia import in 2019?

Saudi Arabia's Top Imports in 2019:

  • 7.57% ($10.9 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
  • 4.98% ($7.19 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
  • 2.78% ($4.01 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
  • 2.49% ($3.6 billion): 8905 - Light-vessels, fire-floats, dredgers, floating cranes and other vessels the navigability of which is subsidiary to their main function; floating docks; floating or submersible drilling or production platforms
  • 2.47% ($3.57 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
  • 1.79% ($2.59 billion): 8803 - Parts of goods of heading 88.01 or 88.02
  • 1.61% ($2.33 billion): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
  • 1.27% ($1.84 billion): 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
  • 1.07% ($1.55 billion): 4011 - New pneumatic tyres, of rubber

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Saudi Arabia | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2008 - 2019