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How dependent is Germany on Norway?

In 2024, Norway sold $29.6 billion to Germany, 2.2% of its imports, ranking 14th among its suppliers. Its share was 1.4% in 2019 and 1.6% in 1995. In 2 products it sells more than 50% of what Germany buys of them (in 0, more than 75%); what Germany buys from Norway in those products (dominated value) adds up to $16.7 billion, 1.3% of its imports.

Summary

Share of its imports
2.2%
Share of its imports from outside the EU
4.8%
Value imported
$29.6billion
Rank among its suppliers
14th
Products where it sells over 50%
2
Products where it sells over 75%
0
Dominated value
$16.7billion
Share of total imports
1.3%

Trend

Trend in shares

Norway went from 1.6% to 2.2% of what Germany buys

Share (%)

  • Norway 2.2%

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearValue (USD millions)ShareRank
19957,0551.6%16
19967,7101.8%17
19977,6161.8%16
19986,5671.4%19
19996,3801.4%19
20009,2672%15
20018,9601.9%16
20029,3432%16
200310,7081.9%16
200412,8042%16
200515,5302.1%16
200619,3472.3%16
200719,1972.1%16
200820,5891.9%16
200917,4322.1%16
201016,2851.7%16
201117,2441.5%17
201221,5362%16
201328,4622.6%14
201426,4952.4%15
201519,6482%16
201613,7071.4%19
201716,7621.5%17
201820,8591.8%16
201916,3871.4%20
202011,1431%24
202136,7852.7%13
202274,9894.9%6
202333,8852.4%14
202429,6442.2%14

Products where Norway sells more than half

ProductSupplierShareSecondValue
Natural gas and LPGNorway63.8%Belgium · 23.4%$16.7 billion
Fishing vesselsNorway53.3%Turkey · 46.2%$62 million

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?

  • Norway sells 11% of what the world exports of natural gas and LPG; next come United States (18%), Australia (10%) and Qatar (9.1%). The rest of the world exported 26.1 times what Germany buys from Norway.
  • Norway sells 13.6% of what the world exports of fishing vessels; next come Turkey (21.3%), Spain (13.6%) and China (12.1%). The rest of the world exported 17.1 times what Germany buys from Norway.

Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.

Seen from Norway

Germany is Norway’s 2nd-largest customer, with 17.3% of its exports.

Sources and method

Sources and licenses

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.