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Trade between Bahrain and Saudi Arabia

In 2024, Bahrain exported $3.1 billion to Saudi Arabia and imported $2.5 billion. Bahrain ran a surplus of $663 million with Saudi Arabia, compared with a deficit of $4.7 billion in 2019. Saudi Arabia was Bahrain’s largest trading partner (16% of its trade), and Bahrain was Saudi Arabia’s 23rd (1%).

Summary

Bahrain → Saudi Arabia
$3.1billion
Saudi Arabia → Bahrain
$2.5billion
Bahrain’s balance
$663million

Balance

Bahrain’s trade balance with Saudi Arabia

Trade between Bahrain and Saudi Arabia grew 14.4-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 3.1
  • Imports 2.5
  • Balance +0.7

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$201 million$185 million$15 million
1996$261 million$180 million$80 million
1997$0$0$0
1998$272 million$227 million$44 million
1999$240 million$0$240 million
2000$274 million$258 million$16 million
2001$327 million$268 million$59 million
2002$401 million$333 million$68 million
2003$493 million$372 million$121 million
2004$613 million$480 million$132 million
2005$773 million$497 million$277 million
2006$774 million$773 million$2 million
2007$940 million$870 million$70 million
2008$1.7 billion$1.2 billion$471 million
2009$1.1 billion$944 million$178 million
2010$1.3 billion$804 million$505 million
2011$1.9 billion$8.5 billion-$6.6 billion
2012$1.9 billion$1.3 billion$619 million
2013$3.5 billion$9.9 billion-$6.4 billion
2014$3.1 billion$9.1 billion-$6 billion
2015$9.4 billion$4.8 billion$4.6 billion
2016$2.5 billion$3.8 billion-$1.3 billion
2017$2.1 billion$5.6 billion-$3.6 billion
2018$2 billion$7.2 billion-$5.2 billion
2019$2.4 billion$7.1 billion-$4.7 billion
2020$2.3 billion$4.5 billion-$2.2 billion
2021$3.4 billion$2 billion$1.5 billion
2022$3.9 billion$1.7 billion$2.2 billion
2023$3 billion$2.1 billion$858 million
2024$3.1 billion$2.5 billion$663 million

What they sell each other

What Bahrain sells to Saudi Arabia

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

  1. Refined petroleum$607 million · 19.5%
    527 thousand tonnes · Bahrain’s destinations
  2. Iron ore$355 million · 11.4%
    2.6 million tonnes · Bahrain’s destinations
  3. Unwrought aluminum$351 million · 11.2%
    130 thousand tonnes · Bahrain’s destinations
  4. Steel structures$258 million · 8.3%
    336 thousand tonnes
  5. Cheese$224 million · 7.2%
    45 thousand tonnes
  6. Semi-finished steel$209 million · 6.7%
    399 thousand tonnes
  7. Cars$131 million · 4.2%
    5 thousand tonnes · Saudi Arabia’s sources
  8. Aluminum wire$90 million · 2.9%
    34 thousand tonnes
  9. Bread, biscuits and pastries$72 million · 2.3%
    18 thousand tonnes
  10. Aluminum sheet$67 million · 2.2%
    22 thousand tonnes

What Saudi Arabia sells to Bahrain

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

  1. Dredgers and floating cranes$673 million · 27.4%
    16 thousand tonnes
  2. Warships and other vessels$583 million · 23.7%
    18 thousand tonnes
  3. Tugboats$58 million · 2.4%
    4 thousand tonnes
  4. Poultry meat$45 million · 1.8%
    15 thousand tonnes
  5. Powdered and condensed milk$38 million · 1.6%
    27 thousand tonnes
  6. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$36 million · 1.5%
    2 thousand tonnes
  7. Precious metal watches$34 million · 1.4%
    1 tonne
  8. Bread, biscuits and pastries$30 million · 1.2%
    9 thousand tonnes
  9. Cane and beet sugar$29 million · 1.2%
    36 thousand tonnes
  10. Cargo and cruise ships$29 million · 1.2%
    6 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Mina Salman to Jeddah.

The estimated sea route between Mina Salman and Jeddah is 2,503 nautical miles (4,636 km) long: ≈ 6–7.5 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Strait of Hormuz and Bab-el-Mandeb Strait.

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$5.5 billion · 97.7%
  2. Air$126 million · 2.3%

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

How much each matters to the other

Saudi Arabia was Bahrain’s largest trading partner (16% of its trade), and Bahrain was Saudi Arabia’s 23rd (1%).

Saudi Arabia in Bahrain’s trade
15.8%
Saudi Arabia’s rank among Bahrain’s partners
1st
Bahrain in Saudi Arabia’s trade
1.1%
Bahrain’s rank among Saudi Arabia’s partners
23rd

Compare with

Other partners of Bahrain

Other partners of Saudi Arabia

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.