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Trade between Croatia and Germany

In 2024, Croatia exported $2.7 billion to Germany and imported $6.5 billion. Croatia ran a deficit of $3.7 billion with Germany, compared with a deficit of $2.2 billion in 2019. Germany was Croatia’s largest trading partner (13% of its trade), and Croatia was Germany’s 45th (0.3%).

Summary

Croatia → Germany
$2.7billion
Germany → Croatia
$6.5billion
Croatia’s balance
-$3.7billion

Balance

Croatia’s trade balance with Germany

Trade between Croatia and Germany grew 3.8-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 2.7
  • Imports 6.5
  • Balance -3.7

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$1 billion$1.4 billion-$362 million
1996$905 million$1.5 billion-$559 million
1997$811 million$1.7 billion-$903 million
1998$822 million$1.6 billion-$756 million
1999$737 million$1.4 billion-$623 million
2000$667 million$1.4 billion-$704 million
2001$720 million$1.6 billion-$907 million
2002$634 million$1.8 billion-$1.1 billion
2003$739 million$2.4 billion-$1.6 billion
2004$876 million$2.6 billion-$1.7 billion
2005$946 million$2.8 billion-$1.9 billion
2006$1.1 billion$3.2 billion-$2.1 billion
2007$1.2 billion$3.7 billion-$2.5 billion
2008$1.4 billion$4.1 billion-$2.7 billion
2009$1.1 billion$2.9 billion-$1.8 billion
2010$1.2 billion$2.5 billion-$1.3 billion
2011$1.4 billion$2.9 billion-$1.5 billion
2012$1.3 billion$2.6 billion-$1.4 billion
2013$1.4 billion$3.1 billion-$1.7 billion
2014$1.5 billion$3.4 billion-$1.9 billion
2015$1.4 billion$3.2 billion-$1.7 billion
2016$1.6 billion$3.5 billion-$1.9 billion
2017$1.9 billion$3.8 billion-$1.9 billion
2018$2.2 billion$4.3 billion-$2.1 billion
2019$2.1 billion$4.3 billion-$2.2 billion
2020$2 billion$4 billion-$2 billion
2021$2.5 billion$5 billion-$2.5 billion
2022$2.7 billion$5.5 billion-$2.8 billion
2023$2.8 billion$6 billion-$3.3 billion
2024$2.7 billion$6.5 billion-$3.7 billion

What they sell each other

What Croatia sells to Germany

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

  1. Cables and wire$200 million · 7.3%
    31 thousand tonnes · Germany’s sources
  2. Transformers and power supplies$134 million · 4.9%
    15 thousand tonnes
  3. Leather footwear$119 million · 4.4%
    3 thousand tonnes
  4. Chocolate$82 million · 3%
    8 thousand tonnes · Germany’s sources
  5. Auto parts$73 million · 2.7%
    12 thousand tonnes · Germany’s sources
  6. Cars$64 million · 2.3%
    4 thousand tonnes · Germany’s sources
  7. Railway freight cars$61 million · 2.3%
    11 thousand tonnes
  8. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$59 million · 2.2%
    1 thousand tonnes · Germany’s sources
  9. Prefabricated buildings$50 million · 1.9%
    16 thousand tonnes
  10. Aluminum sheet$50 million · 1.8%
    12 thousand tonnes

What Germany sells to Croatia

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

  1. Cars$651 million · 10.1%
    38 thousand tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  2. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$209 million · 3.2%
    4 thousand tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  3. Vaccines, blood and antisera$146 million · 2.3%
    72 tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  4. Auto parts$113 million · 1.8%
    9 thousand tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  5. Chocolate$112 million · 1.7%
    15 thousand tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  6. Gold$100 million · 1.6%
    1 tonne · Germany’s destinations
  7. Trucks$100 million · 1.6%
    13 thousand tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  8. Pork$95 million · 1.5%
    29 thousand tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  9. Makeup and skin care$88 million · 1.4%
    3 thousand tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  10. Cheese$88 million · 1.4%
    19 thousand tonnes · Germany’s destinations

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Rijeka to Hamburg.

The estimated sea route between Rijeka and Hamburg is 3,388 nautical miles (6,275 km) long: ≈ 8–10 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Strait of Gibraltar and Strait of Dover.

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$7 billion · 75.6%
  2. Air$2.2 billion · 24.4%

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

How much each matters to the other

Germany was Croatia’s largest trading partner (13% of its trade), and Croatia was Germany’s 45th (0.3%).

Germany in Croatia’s trade
13.5%
Germany’s rank among Croatia’s partners
1st
Croatia in Germany’s trade
0.3%
Croatia’s rank among Germany’s partners
45th

Compare with

Other partners of Croatia

Other partners of Germany

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.