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Trade between Belgium and Qatar

In 2024, Belgium exported $210 million to Qatar and imported $1.2 billion. Belgium ran a deficit of $998 million with Qatar, compared with a deficit of $376 million in 2019. Qatar was Belgium’s 50th largest trading partner (0.2% of its trade), and Belgium was Qatar’s 19th (1%).

Summary

Belgium → Qatar
$210million
Qatar → Belgium
$1.2billion
Belgium’s balance
-$998million

Balance

Belgium’s trade balance with Qatar

Trade between Belgium and Qatar grew 36.1-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 0.2
  • Imports 1.2
  • Balance -1

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$39 million$790 thousand$38 million
1996$28 million$4 million$24 million
1997$40 million$444 thousand$40 million
1998$22 million$8 million$14 million
1999$14 million$2 million$12 million
2000$42 million$38 million$4 million
2001$52 million$8 million$44 million
2002$74 million$21 million$53 million
2003$72 million$13 million$58 million
2004$70 million$40 million$29 million
2005$187 million$127 million$60 million
2006$295 million$186 million$109 million
2007$319 million$770 million-$451 million
2008$400 million$1.4 billion-$995 million
2009$469 million$1.7 billion-$1.3 billion
2010$332 million$1.6 billion-$1.3 billion
2011$176 million$1.9 billion-$1.7 billion
2012$206 million$2.9 billion-$2.7 billion
2013$222 million$2.6 billion-$2.4 billion
2014$265 million$980 million-$715 million
2015$305 million$1.1 billion-$801 million
2016$294 million$632 million-$338 million
2017$323 million$797 million-$474 million
2018$312 million$807 million-$494 million
2019$227 million$603 million-$376 million
2020$205 million$274 million-$69 million
2021$369 million$1.6 billion-$1.2 billion
2022$282 million$6.3 billion-$6 billion
2023$241 million$5.3 billion-$5 billion
2024$210 million$1.2 billion-$998 million

What they sell each other

What Belgium sells to Qatar

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

  1. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$19 million · 9.1%
    172 tonnes · Belgium’s destinations
  2. Chocolate$9 million · 4.2%
    919 tonnes · Belgium’s destinations
  3. Frozen vegetables$9 million · 4.2%
    6 thousand tonnes
  4. Hair care$9 million · 4.1%
    866 tonnes
  5. Vaccines, blood and antisera$8 million · 3.8%
    16 tonnes · Belgium’s destinations
  6. Refined petroleum$6 million · 3%
    3 thousand tonnes · Belgium’s destinations
  7. Gold$6 million · 3%
    Belgium’s destinations
  8. Tractors$6 million · 2.8%
    457 tonnes · Belgium’s destinations
  9. Computers$5 million · 2.3%
    2 tonnes
  10. Crude petroleum$5 million · 2.2%
    12 thousand tonnes · Qatar’s sources

What Qatar sells to Belgium

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

  1. Natural gas and LPG$1 billion · 86.8%
    2 million tonnes
  2. Polyethylene$61 million · 5%
    54 thousand tonnes · Qatar’s destinations
  3. Open-chain hydrocarbons$46 million · 3.9%
    37 thousand tonnes
  4. Refined petroleum$30 million · 2.4%
    36 thousand tonnes · Qatar’s destinations
  5. Nitrogen heterocyclic compounds$11 million · 0.92%
    9 thousand tonnes
  6. Mixed alkylbenzenes$6 million · 0.53%
    5 thousand tonnes
  7. Aluminum structures$2 million · 0.16%
    420 tonnes
  8. Aluminum bars and profiles$1 million · 0.1%
    289 tonnes
  9. Artificial waxes$787 thousand · 0.07%
    1 thousand tonnes
  10. Saddlery and harness$332 thousand · 0.03%
    25 tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Antwerp to Hamad Port.

The estimated sea route between Antwerp and Hamad Port is 11,537 nautical miles (21,366 km) long: ≈ 26.5–34.5 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Because of the 2024 disruptions, traffic is split: 85% via the Strait of Dover, the Cape of Good Hope and the Strait of Hormuz (11,537 nautical miles); and 15% via the Strait of Dover, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Suez Canal, the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and the Strait of Hormuz (6,624 nautical miles).

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$1.3 billion · 94%
  2. Air$85 million · 6%

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

How much each matters to the other

Qatar was Belgium’s 50th largest trading partner (0.2% of its trade), and Belgium was Qatar’s 19th (1%).

Qatar in Belgium’s trade
0.2%
Qatar’s rank among Belgium’s partners
50th
Belgium in Qatar’s trade
1.1%
Belgium’s rank among Qatar’s partners
19th

Compare with

Other partners of Belgium

Other partners of Qatar

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.

Hong Kong, Singapore, the Netherlands and Belgium re-export goods from other countries: their figures include transit.