Summary
- Share of its imports
- 19.3%
- Value imported
- $23.7billion
- Rank among its suppliers
- 1st
- Products where it sells over 50%
- 67
- Products where it sells over 75%
- 14
- Dominated value
- $1.6billion
- Share of total imports
- 1.3%
Trend
Trend in shares
Germany went from 21.9% to 19.3% of what Denmark buys
Share (%)
- Germany 19.3%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Value (USD millions) | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 9,121 | 21.9% | 1 |
| 1996 | 8,789 | 21.1% | 1 |
| 1997 | 9,169 | 21.2% | 1 |
| 1998 | 9,893 | 21.4% | 1 |
| 1999 | 9,687 | 21.3% | 1 |
| 2000 | 9,263 | 20.3% | 1 |
| 2001 | 9,997 | 22% | 1 |
| 2002 | 10,760 | 21.5% | 1 |
| 2003 | 13,261 | 23.1% | 1 |
| 2004 | 14,336 | 21.1% | 1 |
| 2005 | 15,528 | 20.9% | 1 |
| 2006 | 18,382 | 21.5% | 1 |
| 2007 | 20,884 | 21.3% | 1 |
| 2008 | 22,754 | 20.7% | 1 |
| 2009 | 16,581 | 20.3% | 1 |
| 2010 | 17,279 | 20.5% | 1 |
| 2011 | 19,646 | 20.4% | 1 |
| 2012 | 19,122 | 20.7% | 1 |
| 2013 | 20,314 | 20.7% | 1 |
| 2014 | 20,355 | 20.2% | 1 |
| 2015 | 17,673 | 20.5% | 1 |
| 2016 | 18,415 | 21.6% | 1 |
| 2017 | 19,624 | 20.9% | 1 |
| 2018 | 22,989 | 21.8% | 1 |
| 2019 | 21,102 | 21.1% | 1 |
| 2020 | 20,891 | 21.6% | 1 |
| 2021 | 25,486 | 20.6% | 1 |
| 2022 | 24,170 | 20.2% | 1 |
| 2023 | 24,172 | 20.1% | 1 |
| 2024 | 23,738 | 19.3% | 1 |
Products where Germany sells more than half
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prepared meat | Germany | 50.6% | Netherlands · 16.9% | $233 million |
| Generating sets | Germany | 75.9%over 75% | Finland · 5.2% | $228 million |
| Fresh milk and cream | Germany | 84%over 75% | Sweden · 4.7% | $122 million |
| Crude glycerin | Germany | 89.1%over 75% | Netherlands · 3.6% | $103 million |
| Pork | Germany | 57.4% | Poland · 12.8% | $95 million |
| Nitrogen fertilizers | Germany | 56.4% | Poland · 9.4% | $93 million |
| Hydrogenated fats and oils | Germany | 51.4% | Netherlands · 16.3% | $79 million |
| Self-propelled trains and trams | Germany | 53% | Serbia · 47.1% | $68 million |
| Gas masks and breathing apparatus | Germany | 78.8%over 75% | United States · 7% | $60 million |
| Uncoated paper | Germany | 52.4% | Sweden · 14.3% | $56 million |
| Barley | Germany | 62.1% | Sweden · 9.5% | $44 million |
| Rapeseed and mustard oil | Germany | 56.7% | Latvia · 16.5% | $40 million |
| Railway track material | Germany | 54.7% | Sweden · 14.5% | $28 million |
| Railway parts | Germany | 53.1% | Sweden · 31.3% | $25 million |
| Organosulfur compounds | Germany | 72.6% | Belgium · 8.1% | $24 million |
| Wheat flour | Germany | 53.8% | Italy · 20.9% | $23 million |
| Combed wool yarn | Germany | 70.4% | Lithuania · 6.8% | $21 million |
| Potash fertilizers | Germany | 91.4%over 75% | Belgium · 3.5% | $19 million |
| Copper kitchenware and household articles | Germany | 76.7%over 75% | China · 16.7% | $18 million |
| Copper springs | Germany | 64.6% | China · 6.2% | $18 million |
| Float glass | Germany | 82.4%over 75% | Poland · 5.9% | $17 million |
| Central heating boilers | Germany | 59.7% | Czechia · 5% | $15 million |
| Other zinc articles | Germany | 70.2% | China · 6.1% | $15 million |
| Track fixtures and mechanical signaling | Germany | 78.3%over 75% | Italy · 9.5% | $13 million |
| Large-diameter steel pipes | Germany | 54.8% | Finland · 14.1% | $13 million |
| Keyboards and other electric instruments | Germany | 59.2% | Sweden · 14.8% | $12 million |
| Cereal groats and pellets | Germany | 63.6% | Italy · 12.4% | $10 million |
| Zinc oxide | Germany | 61.8% | Peru · 14.7% | $9 million |
| Rolled oats and other processed grains | Germany | 52.9% | Finland · 15.2% | $9 million |
| Roofing tiles and other ceramic building parts | Germany | 74.8% | Poland · 18% | $8 million |
and 37 more
A product has a dominant supplier when a single country sells more than 50% of what is bought of it; we flag it separately above 75%.
Are there other suppliers in the world?
- Germany sells 8.6% of what the world exports of prepared meat; next come Thailand (14.7%), China (8.7%) and Poland (8.3%). The rest of the world exported 78.8 times what Denmark buys from Germany.
- Germany sells 11.9% of what the world exports of generating sets; next come China (31.2%), United States (10.6%) and India (3.7%). The rest of the world exported 96.1 times what Denmark buys from Germany.
- Germany sells 13.8% of what the world exports of fresh milk and cream; next come Netherlands (12.1%), France (8%) and New Zealand (8%). The rest of the world exported 85 times what Denmark buys from Germany.
- Germany sells 18.1% of what the world exports of crude glycerin; next come Indonesia (33.6%), Malaysia (11.7%) and Brazil (8.3%). The rest of the world exported 20.6 times what Denmark buys from Germany.
- Germany sells 11.1% of what the world exports of pork; next come United States (18%), Spain (16.6%) and Canada (9%). The rest of the world exported 314.2 times what Denmark buys from Germany.
- Germany sells 2.9% of what the world exports of nitrogen fertilizers; next come Russia (14.5%), China (9.5%) and Oman (8%). The rest of the world exported 357.5 times what Denmark buys from Germany.
- Germany sells 4.9% of what the world exports of hydrogenated fats and oils; next come Indonesia (32%), Malaysia (17.6%) and Netherlands (6.9%). The rest of the world exported 64.7 times what Denmark buys from Germany.
- Germany sells 10.4% of what the world exports of self-propelled trains and trams; next come Spain (13.7%), Poland (12.6%) and Switzerland (11.6%). The rest of the world exported 67.4 times what Denmark buys from Germany.
- Germany sells 14.7% of what the world exports of gas masks and breathing apparatus; next come United States (25.9%), United Kingdom (10.6%) and France (8%). The rest of the world exported 30.6 times what Denmark buys from Germany.
- Germany sells 17.3% of what the world exports of uncoated paper; next come United States (8.4%), Malaysia (5.4%) and France (5.3%). The rest of the world exported 254.1 times what Denmark buys from Germany.
Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.
Seen from Germany
Denmark is Germany’s 17th-largest customer, with 1.6% of its exports.
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Sources and method
Sources and licenses
- CEPII BACI · Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0
- Natural Earth · Public domain
Methodology
The data come from CEPII BACI (Etalab 2.0 licence), which reconciles what the exporting and the importing country report, in current USD, FOB. Data up to 2024.
Dependence is the share of a country’s imports (or exports) that each partner accounts for. It does not measure whether a product has a substitute or how much it would cost to change supplier.
The concentration index (HHI) adds up the square of each partner’s share, in percent: it runs from 0 to 10,000. Its equivalent is 10,000 ÷ HHI, the number of partners of the same size that would give that value.
Products are HS4 headings of the 1992 nomenclature (some combine different goods), with a floor of $1 million per product and country.
The EU is the 27 current members in every year; the United Kingdom is outside the EU throughout the series.
Re-exports: countries that act as redistribution hubs carry their notice and the figures are not corrected.