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Who buys Kuwait’s refined petroleum products? Export destinations 2024

In 2024, Kuwait exported $25.6 billion of refined petroleum products (34.2 million tonnes), 3% of the world total. Its main destinations were France (15%), the United Kingdom (14%) and Japan (9%). Kuwait was the world’s 12th-largest exporter of refined petroleum products.

Summary

Value
$25.6billion
Tonnes
34.2million tonnes
Share of world total
3%
World rank
12th
Routes to the main destinations. Width: value; color: estimated transport mode.SeaAirLand

Destinations

The 20 main destinations in the latest year.

PartnerValue (USD billions)TonnesUSD per tonneShareMode
France3.8Tonnes: 4,721,452USD per tonne: $79414.6%Sea
United Kingdom3.5Tonnes: 4,150,502USD per tonne: $85313.8%Sea
Japan2.3Tonnes: 3,336,791USD per tonne: $6889%Sea
South Korea2Tonnes: 2,967,638USD per tonne: $6868%Sea
Netherlands re-exports1.7Tonnes: 2,161,176USD per tonne: $7946.7%Sea
Pakistan1.5Tonnes: 2,324,050USD per tonne: $6425.8%Sea
United States0.95Tonnes: 1,637,852USD per tonne: $5803.7%Sea
Singapore re-exports0.88Tonnes: 1,396,219USD per tonne: $6313.4%Sea
South Africa0.86Tonnes: 1,139,048USD per tonne: $7583.4%Sea
Egypt0.8Tonnes: 638,264USD per tonne: $1,2543.1%Sea
Italy0.77Tonnes: 1,089,152USD per tonne: $7083%Sea
Ireland0.67Tonnes: 842,587USD per tonne: $7922.6%Sea
Brazil0.61Tonnes: 793,343USD per tonne: $7662.4%Sea
Thailand0.61Tonnes: 838,661USD per tonne: $7222.4%Sea
China0.52Tonnes: 767,846USD per tonne: $6762%Sea
Kenya0.48Tonnes: 584,780USD per tonne: $8201.9%Sea
Germany0.39Tonnes: 492,961USD per tonne: $8001.5%Sea
Ukraine0.31Tonnes: 376,486USD per tonne: $8341.2%Sea
Spain0.28Tonnes: 378,816USD per tonne: $7261.1%Sea
Tanzania0.27Tonnes: 402,930USD per tonne: $6621%Sea

Trend

Who it sells to

France has been its main destination since 2023

Value in USD billions. The five largest destinations in 2024.

  • France 3.8
  • United Kingdom 3.5
  • Japan 2.3
  • South Korea 2
  • Netherlands 1.7

Source: CEPII BACI

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Partner19952024
France03.8
United Kingdom03.5
Japan0.862.3
South Korea0.512
Netherlands0.181.7

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Methodology

Goods trade from CEPII BACI (BACI_HS92_V202601), which reconciles what exporters and importers report: countries that stopped reporting (Russia since 2022) appear with their partners’ data. FOB values in current US dollars; tonnes when BACI reports them. The price per tonne is the value of the rows with a weight divided by that weight. The transport mode is our own estimate based on value per kilo and geography. Data up to 2024.

Hong Kong, Singapore, the Netherlands and Belgium re-export goods from other countries: their figures include transit.

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