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Trade between Australia and Bahrain

In 2024, Australia exported $1.3 billion to Bahrain and imported $122 million. Australia ran a surplus of $1.2 billion with Bahrain, compared with a surplus of $851 million in 2019. Bahrain was Australia’s 37th largest trading partner (0.2% of its trade), and Australia was Bahrain’s 7th (4%).

Summary

Australia → Bahrain
$1.3billion
Bahrain → Australia
$122million
Australia’s balance
$1.2billion

Balance

Australia’s trade balance with Bahrain

Trade between Australia and Bahrain grew 52-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 1.3
  • Imports 0.1
  • Balance +1.2

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$24 million$4 million$19 million
1996$37 million$11 million$26 million
1997$60 million$19 million$41 million
1998$57 million$17 million$40 million
1999$40 million$25 million$15 million
2000$260 million$32 million$228 million
2001$291 million$39 million$252 million
2002$286 million$41 million$246 million
2003$290 million$83 million$207 million
2004$210 million$103 million$106 million
2005$437 million$109 million$329 million
2006$344 million$108 million$235 million
2007$731 million$133 million$598 million
2008$857 million$201 million$656 million
2009$611 million$89 million$523 million
2010$642 million$103 million$540 million
2011$439 million$178 million$261 million
2012$509 million$134 million$375 million
2013$456 million$85 million$370 million
2014$807 million$199 million$608 million
2015$788 million$32 million$756 million
2016$579 million$45 million$534 million
2017$588 million$71 million$517 million
2018$975 million$76 million$899 million
2019$934 million$83 million$851 million
2020$879 million$99 million$781 million
2021$1 billion$100 million$901 million
2022$1.3 billion$181 million$1.2 billion
2023$1.3 billion$151 million$1.1 billion
2024$1.3 billion$122 million$1.2 billion

What they sell each other

What Australia sells to Bahrain

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

  1. Aluminum oxide and hydroxide$1.2 billion · 90.7%
    2.9 million tonnes
  2. Wheat$45 million · 3.4%
    136 thousand tonnes · Australia’s destinations
  3. Lamb and goat meat$26 million · 1.9%
    6 thousand tonnes · Australia’s destinations
  4. 15 thousand tonnes · Australia’s destinations
  5. Petroleum coke and bitumen$7 million · 0.51%
    33 thousand tonnes
  6. Aluminum scrap$6 million · 0.45%
    3 thousand tonnes
  7. Cheese$4 million · 0.32%
    572 tonnes
  8. Fresh beef$4 million · 0.32%
    177 tonnes
  9. 52 tonnes
  10. 2 thousand tonnes

What Bahrain sells to Australia

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

  1. Nitrogen fertilizers$59 million · 48.8%
    161 thousand tonnes
  2. Unwrought aluminum$28 million · 23.2%
    12 thousand tonnes · Bahrain’s destinations
  3. Aluminum sheet$10 million · 8.2%
    4 thousand tonnes
  4. Uninsulated aluminum cable$6 million · 5.3%
    892 tonnes
  5. Cheese$5 million · 4.5%
    704 tonnes
  6. 3 thousand tonnes
  7. Furnace burners$2 million · 1.9%
    65 tonnes
  8. Other hats$858 thousand · 0.71%
    3 tonnes
  9. Air pumps, compressors and fans$806 thousand · 0.66%
    26 tonnes
  10. Auto parts$686 thousand · 0.56%
    181 tonnes · Australia’s sources

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Sydney to Mina Salman.

The estimated sea route between Sydney and Mina Salman is 7,929 nautical miles (14,685 km) long: ≈ 18.5–23.5 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Strait of Malacca and Singapore; and Strait of Hormuz.

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$1.5 billion · 99.5%
  2. Air$7 million · 0.5%

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

How much each matters to the other

Bahrain was Australia’s 37th largest trading partner (0.2% of its trade), and Australia was Bahrain’s 7th (4%).

Bahrain in Australia’s trade
0.2%
Bahrain’s rank among Australia’s partners
37th
Australia in Bahrain’s trade
4.2%
Australia’s rank among Bahrain’s partners
7th

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Sources and methodology

Sources and licenses

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.