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How much of Lithuania’s trade passes through the Turkish Straits?

In 2024, an estimated $4.2 billion of Lithuania’s trade passed through the Turkish Straits, 8% of its seaborne trade. That is $2.7 billion of exports and $1.4 billion of imports. The partners with the most trade through it are Ukraine, Turkey and Uzbekistan.

Summary

Estimated value
$4.2billion
Of its seaborne trade
8%
Exports
$2.7billion
Imports
$1.4billion

Trend

Estimated value per year

Lithuania’s estimated trade through the Turkish Straits rose 3% between 2019 and 2024

Value in USD billions

  • Lithuania 4.2

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearEstimated valueOf its seaborne trade
1995$700 million16.3%
1996$707 million13.9%
1997$755 million12.6%
1998$688 million11.1%
1999$391 million7.3%
2000$563 million9%
2001$557 million7.8%
2002$753 million8.1%
2003$745 million6%
2004$911 million6.4%
2005$1.1 billion6.4%
2006$1.3 billion6.5%
2007$1.8 billion7.3%
2008$2.6 billion8.5%
2009$1.5 billion7.8%
2010$1.8 billion7.5%
2011$2.5 billion8.1%
2012$2.6 billion8.1%
2013$2.9 billion8.4%
2014$3.6 billion10.3%
2015$2.5 billion8.1%
2016$2.3 billion7.6%
2017$3.8 billion10.4%
2018$3.9 billion9.9%
2019$4.1 billion10.3%
2020$3.8 billion10.1%
2021$5.5 billion11.2%
2022$5.7 billion9%
2023$4.6 billion7.9%
2024$4.2 billion8%

Partners whose trade crosses it

Estimated value of its trade with each partner that crosses the chokepoint; the percentage is the share of all its trade through the chokepoint, not of the pair’s trade.

  1. Lithuania–Ukraine$1.7 billion · 40.6%
  2. Lithuania–Turkey$794 million · 19%
  3. Lithuania–Uzbekistan$447 million · 10.7%
  4. Lithuania–Romania$355 million · 8.5%
  5. Lithuania–Kazakhstan$257 million · 6.2%
  6. Lithuania–Bulgaria$190 million · 4.6%
  7. Lithuania–Georgia$117 million · 2.8%
  8. Lithuania–Kyrgyzstan$86 million · 2.1%
  9. Lithuania–Azerbaijan$82 million · 2%
  10. Lithuania–Russia$56 million · 1.3%

What crosses it

The products with the highest estimated value in 2024, with their share of the total through the chokepoint.

  1. Refined petroleum$737 million · 17.7%
  2. Ferrous scrap$384 million · 9.2%
  3. Natural gas and LPG$138 million · 3.3%
  4. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$112 million · 2.7%
  5. Non-electric industrial furnaces$100 million · 2.4%
  6. Cigarettes and cigars$97 million · 2.3%
  7. Nitrogen fertilizers$80 million · 1.9%
  8. Tractors$75 million · 1.8%
  9. Furniture$68 million · 1.6%
  10. Polyethers, polyesters and epoxy resins$66 million · 1.6%

Reference ports

Klaipeda (100%)

Each port with the weight it receives from the country’s trade, based on where its GDP is generated and which coast is closest.

Other chokepoints it uses

Sources and method

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Methodology

We estimate the value crossing each chokepoint from BACI trade that travels by sea according to our mode heuristic, split between each country’s ports by where its GDP is generated and which coast is closest, and routed over our own sea network. It is an estimate, not a count of ships. It covers 99.9% of seaborne trade. The approach follows Verschuur, Lumma and Hall (Nature Communications, 2025). Data up to 2024.

The Bosporus and the Dardanelles are counted together: they are the two gates between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.

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