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Trade between Austria and Bulgaria

In 2024, Austria exported $785 million to Bulgaria and imported $783 million. Austria ran a surplus of $2 million with Bulgaria, compared with a surplus of $252 million in 2019. Bulgaria was Austria’s 33rd largest trading partner (0.4% of its trade), and Austria was Bulgaria’s 19th (2%).

Summary

Austria → Bulgaria
$785million
Bulgaria → Austria
$783million
Austria’s balance
$2million

Balance

Austria’s trade balance with Bulgaria

Trade between Austria and Bulgaria grew 8.2-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 0.8
  • Imports 0.8
  • Balance +0

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$130 million$61 million$69 million
1996$136 million$76 million$60 million
1997$136 million$84 million$52 million
1998$164 million$104 million$60 million
1999$187 million$81 million$106 million
2000$164 million$87 million$77 million
2001$159 million$108 million$51 million
2002$185 million$120 million$64 million
2003$258 million$196 million$63 million
2004$362 million$277 million$86 million
2005$396 million$301 million$95 million
2006$519 million$381 million$138 million
2007$710 million$396 million$314 million
2008$906 million$493 million$413 million
2009$565 million$355 million$210 million
2010$886 million$447 million$440 million
2011$1.1 billion$554 million$523 million
2012$962 million$512 million$450 million
2013$934 million$553 million$381 million
2014$942 million$561 million$382 million
2015$744 million$495 million$249 million
2016$762 million$571 million$191 million
2017$770 million$621 million$149 million
2018$879 million$627 million$252 million
2019$873 million$621 million$252 million
2020$895 million$630 million$266 million
2021$1.1 billion$871 million$190 million
2022$1.2 billion$1 billion$151 million
2023$1.3 billion$1 billion$273 million
2024$785 million$783 million$2 million

What they sell each other

What Austria sells to Bulgaria

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

  1. 402 tonnes · Austria’s destinations
  2. Cane and beet sugar$24 million · 3.1%
    35 thousand tonnes
  3. Microchips$21 million · 2.6%
    20 tonnes
  4. Tractors$17 million · 2.2%
    1 thousand tonnes
  5. 917 tonnes
  6. Uncoated paper$13 million · 1.6%
    27 thousand tonnes
  7. Polypropylene$12 million · 1.6%
    7 thousand tonnes
  8. 82 tonnes
  9. Electric locomotives$12 million · 1.6%
    332 tonnes
  10. Coated narrow steel strip$12 million · 1.5%
    11 thousand tonnes

What Bulgaria sells to Austria

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

  1. Orthopedic and hearing devices$79 million · 10.1%
    83 tonnes
  2. Other engines and motors$69 million · 8.8%
    8 thousand tonnes
  3. Sports equipment$64 million · 8.1%
    2 thousand tonnes
  4. 4 thousand tonnes
  5. Cables and wire$22 million · 2.8%
    4 thousand tonnes · Austria’s sources
  6. Sunflower seeds$19 million · 2.4%
    17 thousand tonnes
  7. Motorcycles$18 million · 2.3%
    744 tonnes
  8. 2 thousand tonnes
  9. 244 tonnes · Austria’s sources
  10. Women's suits and dresses$15 million · 1.9%
    108 tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Koper (Slovenia) to Varna.

The estimated sea route between Koper (Slovenia) and Varna is 1,322 nautical miles (2,449 km) long: ≈ 3–4 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Dardanelles and Bosporus.

Austria is landlocked: it ships through Koper (Slovenia).

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 · 71.3%
  2. Air$451 million · 28.7%

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

How much each matters to the other

Bulgaria was Austria’s 33rd largest trading partner (0.4% of its trade), and Austria was Bulgaria’s 19th (2%).

Bulgaria in Austria’s trade
0.4%
Bulgaria’s rank among Austria’s partners
33rd
Austria in Bulgaria’s trade
1.5%
Austria’s rank among Bulgaria’s partners
19th

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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.