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Trade between Algeria and Belgium

In 2024, Algeria exported $528 million to Belgium and imported $709 million. Algeria ran a deficit of $181 million with Belgium, compared with a deficit of $585 million in 2019. Belgium was Algeria’s 15th largest trading partner (1% of its trade), and Algeria was Belgium’s 52nd (0.2%).

Summary

Algeria → Belgium
$528million
Belgium → Algeria
$709million
Algeria’s balance
-$181million

Balance

Algeria’s trade balance with Belgium

Trade between Algeria and Belgium grew 46% since 1995

USD billions (current). Algeria’s exports and imports; bars: its balance (green surplus, red deficit).

  • Exports 0.5
  • Imports 0.7
  • Balance -0.2

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$511 million$337 million$174 million
1996$455 million$282 million$174 million
1997$602 million$331 million$271 million
1998$482 million$381 million$101 million
1999$403 million$256 million$147 million
2000$691 million$289 million$403 million
2001$468 million$322 million$146 million
2002$898 million$371 million$527 million
2003$1.2 billion$414 million$771 million
2004$1.3 billion$621 million$690 million
2005$1.9 billion$529 million$1.4 billion
2006$2.4 billion$620 million$1.8 billion
2007$1.7 billion$836 million$912 million
2008$2 billion$1 billion$993 million
2009$1.4 billion$888 million$478 million
2010$1.2 billion$839 million$404 million
2011$1.2 billion$870 million$371 million
2012$1.1 billion$742 million$358 million
2013$985 million$824 million$161 million
2014$945 million$942 million$3 million
2015$1 billion$877 million$142 million
2016$1 billion$706 million$324 million
2017$698 million$768 million-$70 million
2018$331 million$686 million-$355 million
2019$97 million$682 million-$585 million
2020$151 million$600 million-$449 million
2021$580 million$538 million$41 million
2022$662 million$508 million$154 million
2023$739 million$536 million$203 million
2024$528 million$709 million-$181 million

What they sell each other

What Algeria sells to Belgium

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Refined petroleum$396 million · 75%
    568 thousand tonnes · Algeria’s destinations
  2. Crude petroleum$48 million · 9.1%
    67 thousand tonnes · Algeria’s destinations
  3. Copper wire$19 million · 3.6%
    2 thousand tonnes
  4. Steel bars$18 million · 3.5%
    30 thousand tonnes
  5. Nitrogen fertilizers$14 million · 2.6%
    35 thousand tonnes
  6. Ammonia$9 million · 1.8%
    18 thousand tonnes
  7. Cement$6 million · 1.1%
    90 thousand tonnes
  8. Coal tar oils$5 million · 0.95%
    6 thousand tonnes
  9. Copper scrap$3 million · 0.55%
    364 tonnes
  10. Cane and beet sugar$3 million · 0.53%
    3 thousand tonnes

What Belgium sells to Algeria

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Powdered and condensed milk$95 million · 13.4%
    33 thousand tonnes
  2. 3 thousand tonnes · Belgium’s destinations
  3. Vaccines, blood and antisera$42 million · 5.9%
    41 tonnes · Belgium’s destinations
  4. Refined petroleum$23 million · 3.3%
    11 thousand tonnes · Belgium’s destinations
  5. Acrylic polymers$23 million · 3.3%
    16 thousand tonnes
  6. Detergents and surfactants$20 million · 2.8%
    12 thousand tonnes
  7. 482 tonnes
  8. Polystyrene$16 million · 2.2%
    11 thousand tonnes
  9. Cars$14 million · 2%
    1 thousand tonnes · Belgium’s destinations
  10. 18 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Algiers to Antwerp.

The estimated sea route between Algiers and Antwerp is 1,853 nautical miles (3,432 km) long: ≈ 4.5–5.5 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Strait of Gibraltar and Strait of Dover.

Sailing estimate without port calls, waiting or transshipment; not a schedule. One main reference port per country: in large countries it does not represent all of its ports.

Split by transport mode

  1. Sea$1.1 billion · 86.6%
  2. Air$165 million · 13.4%

Mode estimated from value per kilo and geography; both directions together.

How much each matters to the other

Belgium was Algeria’s 15th largest trading partner (1% of its trade), and Algeria was Belgium’s 52nd (0.2%).

Belgium in Algeria’s trade
1.4%
Belgium’s rank among Algeria’s partners
15th
Algeria in Belgium’s trade
0.2%
Algeria’s rank among Belgium’s partners
52nd

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Sources and methodology

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Methodology

Goods trade from CEPII BACI (BACI_HS92_V202601), in current US dollars, with exports and imports reconciled between countries. The transport mode is our own estimate based on value per kilo and geography. The sea route comes from our own network derived from World Bank shipping density (not from nautical charts), between one main reference port per country (World Port Index); days are the distance at 14 and 18 knots, without port calls or waiting. Data up to 2024.

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