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Trade between Austria and Saudi Arabia

In 2024, Austria exported $1 billion to Saudi Arabia and imported $620 million. Austria ran a surplus of $413 million with Saudi Arabia, compared with a surplus of $854 million in 2019. Saudi Arabia was Austria’s 31st largest trading partner (0.4% of its trade), and Austria was Saudi Arabia’s 42nd (0.3%).

Summary

Austria → Saudi Arabia
$1billion
Saudi Arabia → Austria
$620million
Austria’s balance
$413million

Balance

Austria’s trade balance with Saudi Arabia

Trade between Austria and Saudi Arabia grew 4-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 1
  • Imports 0.6
  • Balance +0.4

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$245 million$172 million$74 million
1996$245 million$168 million$78 million
1997$169 million$157 million$11 million
1998$257 million$92 million$165 million
1999$214 million$66 million$148 million
2000$171 million$118 million$53 million
2001$185 million$121 million$64 million
2002$231 million$155 million$76 million
2003$346 million$337 million$9 million
2004$381 million$378 million$3 million
2005$501 million$418 million$83 million
2006$810 million$376 million$435 million
2007$908 million$298 million$610 million
2008$1.2 billion$391 million$772 million
2009$1.2 billion$174 million$1 billion
2010$718 million$54 million$664 million
2011$1 billion$684 million$349 million
2012$1.1 billion$707 million$362 million
2013$1.2 billion$494 million$721 million
2014$1.2 billion$612 million$572 million
2015$1 billion$310 million$690 million
2016$725 million$198 million$527 million
2017$602 million$78 million$524 million
2018$594 million$72 million$522 million
2019$889 million$35 million$854 million
2020$890 million$117 million$773 million
2021$560 million$31 million$530 million
2022$783 million$190 million$593 million
2023$729 million$479 million$251 million
2024$1 billion$620 million$413 million

What they sell each other

What Austria sells to Saudi Arabia

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

  1. Seamless steel pipes$137 million · 13.2%
    53 thousand tonnes
  2. 1 thousand tonnes · Austria’s destinations
  3. Sawn wood$58 million · 5.6%
    94 thousand tonnes · Austria’s destinations
  4. Vaccines, blood and antisera$55 million · 5.4%
    203 tonnes · Austria’s destinations
  5. Cars$46 million · 4.5%
    1 thousand tonnes · Austria’s destinations
  6. 5 thousand tonnes
  7. Special-purpose vehicles$30 million · 3%
    959 tonnes
  8. Lamps and light fittings$26 million · 2.5%
    166 tonnes
  9. Hot-rolled flat steel$24 million · 2.4%
    24 thousand tonnes
  10. 760 tonnes

What Saudi Arabia sells to Austria

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

  1. Crude petroleum$538 million · 86.9%
    926 thousand tonnes · Saudi Arabia’s destinations
  2. Aluminum sheet$45 million · 7.3%
    14 thousand tonnes
  3. Cyclic hydrocarbons$10 million · 1.6%
    8 thousand tonnes
  4. Polyethylene$6 million · 0.94%
    4 thousand tonnes · Saudi Arabia’s destinations
  5. Cars$5 million · 0.73%
    28 tonnes · Austria’s sources
  6. Copper scrap$1 million · 0.23%
    116 tonnes
  7. 471 tonnes
  8. Polypropylene$1 million · 0.17%
    813 tonnes · Saudi Arabia’s destinations
  9. Special-purpose vehicles$999 thousand · 0.16%
    12 tonnes
  10. Oxygen heterocyclic compounds$900 thousand · 0.15%
    388 tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Koper (Slovenia) to Jeddah.

The estimated sea route between Koper (Slovenia) and Jeddah is 2,070 nautical miles (3,834 km) long: ≈ 5–6 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Suez Canal.

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$1.2 billion · 75.3%
  2. Air$407 million · 24.7%

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

How much each matters to the other

Saudi Arabia was Austria’s 31st largest trading partner (0.4% of its trade), and Austria was Saudi Arabia’s 42nd (0.3%).

Saudi Arabia in Austria’s trade
0.4%
Saudi Arabia’s rank among Austria’s partners
31st
Austria in Saudi Arabia’s trade
0.3%
Austria’s rank among Saudi Arabia’s partners
42nd

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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.