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Trade between Bahrain and India

In 2024, Bahrain exported $812 million to India and imported $876 million. Bahrain ran a deficit of $65 million with India, compared with a deficit of $264 million in 2019. India was Bahrain’s 5th largest trading partner (5% of its trade), and Bahrain was India’s 67th (0.2%).

Summary

Bahrain → India
$812million
India → Bahrain
$876million
Bahrain’s balance
-$65million

Balance

Bahrain’s trade balance with India

Trade between Bahrain and India grew 14.2-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 0.8
  • Imports 0.9
  • Balance -0.1

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$60 million$59 million$1 million
1996$132 million$62 million$70 million
1997$121 million$61 million$60 million
1998$470 million$56 million$414 million
1999$378 million$60 million$318 million
2000$194 million$125 million$69 million
2001$182 million$134 million$49 million
2002$161 million$154 million$7 million
2003$108 million$168 million-$60 million
2004$192 million$211 million-$19 million
2005$241 million$257 million-$16 million
2006$485 million$175 million$310 million
2007$558 million$240 million$318 million
2008$1.6 billion$419 million$1.2 billion
2009$612 million$307 million$304 million
2010$742 million$704 million$37 million
2011$805 million$446 million$359 million
2012$1 billion$641 million$376 million
2013$518 million$463 million$55 million
2014$703 million$531 million$172 million
2015$372 million$662 million-$291 million
2016$502 million$554 million-$52 million
2017$417 million$675 million-$258 million
2018$615 million$866 million-$250 million
2019$422 million$686 million-$264 million
2020$551 million$572 million-$21 million
2021$787 million$765 million$22 million
2022$995 million$974 million$20 million
2023$755 million$746 million$9 million
2024$812 million$876 million-$65 million

What they sell each other

What Bahrain sells to India

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

  1. Natural gas and LPG$178 million · 21.9%
    273 thousand tonnes
  2. Ferrous scrap$171 million · 21.1%
    319 thousand tonnes · India’s sources
  3. Unwrought aluminum$136 million · 16.7%
    53 thousand tonnes · Bahrain’s destinations
  4. Nitrogen fertilizers$61 million · 7.6%
    157 thousand tonnes
  5. Refined petroleum$58 million · 7.1%
    50 thousand tonnes · Bahrain’s destinations
  6. Alcohols$34 million · 4.2%
    107 thousand tonnes
  7. Copper scrap$32 million · 4%
    4 thousand tonnes
  8. Ammonia$23 million · 2.9%
    59 thousand tonnes
  9. Aluminum sheet$20 million · 2.5%
    7 thousand tonnes
  10. Waste paper$16 million · 2%
    64 thousand tonnes

What India sells to Bahrain

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

  1. Cars$70 million · 7.9%
    6 thousand tonnes · India’s destinations
  2. Rice$64 million · 7.3%
    63 thousand tonnes · India’s destinations
  3. Butter and milk fats$54 million · 6.1%
    11 thousand tonnes
  4. Jewelry$28 million · 3.2%
    India’s destinations
  5. Frozen beef$24 million · 2.7%
    6 thousand tonnes
  6. Coal tar oils$24 million · 2.7%
    44 thousand tonnes
  7. Petroleum coke and bitumen$23 million · 2.6%
    64 thousand tonnes
  8. Ferroalloys$19 million · 2.1%
    20 thousand tonnes · India’s destinations
  9. Dredgers and floating cranes$18 million · 2.1%
    2 tonnes
  10. Cast iron pipes$17 million · 2%
    25 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Mina Salman to Nhava Sheva (Mumbai).

The estimated sea route between Mina Salman and Nhava Sheva (Mumbai) is 1,425 nautical miles (2,639 km) long: ≈ 3.5–4 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: 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$1.6 billion · 94.8%
  2. Air$88 million · 5.2%

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

How much each matters to the other

India was Bahrain’s 5th largest trading partner (5% of its trade), and Bahrain was India’s 67th (0.2%).

India in Bahrain’s trade
4.8%
India’s rank among Bahrain’s partners
5th
Bahrain in India’s trade
0.2%
Bahrain’s rank among India’s partners
67th

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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.