Summary
- Share of its imports
- 7.5%
- Value imported
- $6.4billion
- Rank among its suppliers
- 3rd
- Products where it sells over 50%
- 18
- Products where it sells over 75%
- 4
- Dominated value
- $673million
- Share of total imports
- 0.8%
Trend
Trend in shares
Germany went from 10% to 7.5% of what Israel buys
Share (%)
- Germany 7.5%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Value (USD millions) | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 2,740 | 10% | 3 |
| 1996 | 2,850 | 9.6% | 3 |
| 1997 | 2,955 | 10.3% | 3 |
| 1998 | 2,409 | 8.7% | 3 |
| 1999 | 2,398 | 7.8% | 3 |
| 2000 | 2,827 | 8% | 4 |
| 2001 | 2,782 | 8.3% | 2 |
| 2002 | 2,450 | 7.4% | 3 |
| 2003 | 2,890 | 8.6% | 3 |
| 2004 | 3,225 | 8% | 3 |
| 2005 | 3,171 | 7.1% | 3 |
| 2006 | 3,448 | 7.4% | 3 |
| 2007 | 3,503 | 5.9% | 4 |
| 2008 | 3,952 | 6% | 4 |
| 2009 | 3,463 | 7.3% | 3 |
| 2010 | 3,690 | 6.5% | 3 |
| 2011 | 4,571 | 6.7% | 3 |
| 2012 | 4,580 | 6.7% | 3 |
| 2013 | 4,617 | 7% | 3 |
| 2014 | 4,624 | 6.6% | 4 |
| 2015 | 3,800 | 6.2% | 4 |
| 2016 | 4,078 | 5.9% | 4 |
| 2017 | 4,710 | 6.5% | 4 |
| 2018 | 4,865 | 6.2% | 4 |
| 2019 | 4,859 | 6.6% | 3 |
| 2020 | 5,133 | 7.4% | 3 |
| 2021 | 6,447 | 7.2% | 3 |
| 2022 | 6,941 | 6.9% | 3 |
| 2023 | 5,711 | 6.6% | 3 |
| 2024 | 6,420 | 7.5% | 3 |
Products where Germany sells more than half
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Self-propelled trains and trams | Germany | 64.1% | Spain · 21% | $239 million |
| Passenger rail coaches | Germany | 100%over 75% | — | $155 million |
| Electric locomotives | Germany | 99.6%over 75% | China · 0.38% | $76 million |
| Electron microscopes | Germany | 72% | Netherlands · 6.5% | $61 million |
| Isocyanates and other nitrogen compounds | Germany | 74.9% | Hungary · 7.5% | $35 million |
| Diesel engines | Germany | 50.2% | United Arab Emirates · 10% | $30 million |
| Electric road and railway signaling | Germany | 61.5% | Spain · 13.7% | $29 million |
| Optical microscopes | Germany | 53.1% | Switzerland · 8.1% | $20 million |
| Tugboats | Germany | 64% | Marshall Islands · 35% | $10 million |
| Cermets | Germany | 86.8%over 75% | United States · 9.3% | $3 million |
| Plant waste for animal feed | Germany | 68.1% | Brazil · 19.7% | $3 million |
| Asphalt mixtures | Germany | 50.2% | Italy · 20.6% | $3 million |
| Felt and nonwoven machinery | Germany | 57.9% | Slovenia · 14.9% | $2 million |
| Textile machine accessories | Germany | 52.4% | Italy · 10.7% | $2 million |
| Iron oxides | Germany | 61.1% | China · 12.1% | $2 million |
| Sulfite wood pulp | Germany | 76.3%over 75% | United States · 23.7% | $1 million |
| Pulp from recycled paper and other fibers | Germany | 70.5% | Hungary · 9.5% | $818 thousand |
| Chromium oxides | Germany | 73.3% | Spain · 14.4% | $789 thousand |
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 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 19.1 times what Israel buys from Germany.
- Germany sells 14.9% of what the world exports of passenger rail coaches; next come Spain (17.3%), United States (13.5%) and Hungary (9.7%). The rest of the world exported 9.9 times what Israel buys from Germany.
- Germany sells 56.2% of what the world exports of electric locomotives; next come Spain (11.9%), France (7.7%) and China (4.9%). The rest of the world exported 8.7 times what Israel buys from Germany.
- Germany sells 9.1% of what the world exports of electron microscopes; next come Czechia (29.2%), Japan (17.6%) and Netherlands (16.1%). The rest of the world exported 75 times what Israel buys from Germany.
- Germany sells 13% of what the world exports of isocyanates and other nitrogen compounds; next come China (23.3%), South Korea (16.5%) and Hungary (10.8%). The rest of the world exported 148 times what Israel buys from Germany.
- Germany sells 11.9% of what the world exports of diesel engines; next come United States (20.5%), United Kingdom (8.6%) and Japan (7.8%). The rest of the world exported 1,393.9 times what Israel buys from Germany.
- Germany sells 12.2% of what the world exports of electric road and railway signaling; next come China (14.7%), Austria (7.5%) and United States (6.8%). The rest of the world exported 87.8 times what Israel buys from Germany.
- Germany sells 34.5% of what the world exports of optical microscopes; next come Japan (14.5%), China (13.4%) and United States (7.6%). The rest of the world exported 106.9 times what Israel buys from Germany.
- Germany sells 0.53% of what the world exports of tugboats; next come Saudi Arabia (24.9%), China (11.2%) and Turkey (8.7%). The rest of the world exported 419.7 times what Israel buys from Germany.
- Germany sells 29% of what the world exports of cermets; next come Austria (20.5%), China (17%) and United States (7.1%). The rest of the world exported 237 times what Israel buys from Germany.
Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.
Seen from Germany
Israel is Germany’s 40th-largest customer, with 0.43% of its exports.
Links
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.