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Trade between Croatia and Spain

In 2024, Croatia exported $364 million to Spain and imported $1.1 billion. Croatia ran a deficit of $770 million with Spain, compared with a deficit of $388 million in 2019. Spain was Croatia’s 14th largest trading partner (2% of its trade), and Croatia was Spain’s 65th (0.2%).

Summary

Croatia → Spain
$364million
Spain → Croatia
$1.1billion
Croatia’s balance
-$770million

Balance

Croatia’s trade balance with Spain

Trade between Croatia and Spain grew 17.6-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 0.4
  • Imports 1.1
  • Balance -0.8

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$28 million$58 million-$30 million
1996$14 million$67 million-$53 million
1997$13 million$98 million-$85 million
1998$16 million$118 million-$101 million
1999$23 million$89 million-$66 million
2000$28 million$117 million-$88 million
2001$47 million$135 million-$88 million
2002$47 million$187 million-$141 million
2003$43 million$277 million-$234 million
2004$43 million$326 million-$283 million
2005$69 million$292 million-$223 million
2006$96 million$371 million-$275 million
2007$102 million$464 million-$362 million
2008$99 million$509 million-$410 million
2009$72 million$346 million-$274 million
2010$85 million$309 million-$224 million
2011$106 million$362 million-$256 million
2012$59 million$365 million-$306 million
2013$77 million$329 million-$252 million
2014$144 million$407 million-$262 million
2015$202 million$469 million-$267 million
2016$182 million$456 million-$274 million
2017$170 million$548 million-$378 million
2018$218 million$619 million-$401 million
2019$268 million$656 million-$388 million
2020$259 million$549 million-$289 million
2021$274 million$699 million-$426 million
2022$321 million$792 million-$471 million
2023$357 million$1.1 billion-$709 million
2024$364 million$1.1 billion-$770 million

What they sell each other

What Croatia sells to Spain

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

  1. Bulk medicines$26 million · 7.2%
    678 tonnes
  2. 450 tonnes
  3. Prepared fish and caviar$19 million · 5.2%
    3 thousand tonnes
  4. Socks and tights$15 million · 4.1%
    606 tonnes
  5. 1 thousand tonnes
  6. Wood veneer sheets$14 million · 3.8%
    3 thousand tonnes
  7. Refined petroleum$11 million · 2.9%
    11 thousand tonnes · Spain’s sources
  8. Sulfonamides$10 million · 2.7%
    38 tonnes
  9. Vaccines, blood and antisera$10 million · 2.6%
    8 tonnes · Spain’s sources
  10. Yachts and pleasure boats$10 million · 2.6%
    160 tonnes

What Spain sells to Croatia

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

  1. Cars$130 million · 11.5%
    9 thousand tonnes · Spain’s destinations
  2. Pork$71 million · 6.2%
    19 thousand tonnes · Spain’s destinations
  3. Refined petroleum$55 million · 4.8%
    70 thousand tonnes · Spain’s destinations
  4. Women's suits and dresses$41 million · 3.6%
    1 thousand tonnes
  5. 8 thousand tonnes
  6. Crude petroleum$39 million · 3.4%
    57 thousand tonnes · Croatia’s sources
  7. Trucks$31 million · 2.7%
    2 thousand tonnes · Spain’s destinations
  8. Ceramic tiles$22 million · 1.9%
    43 thousand tonnes
  9. 377 tonnes · Spain’s destinations
  10. Olive oil$18 million · 1.6%
    2 thousand tonnes · Spain’s destinations

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Rijeka to Valencia.

The estimated sea route between Rijeka and Valencia is 1,387 nautical miles (2,568 km) long: ≈ 3–4 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

It does not cross any major canal or 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$1.3 billion · 84.1%
  2. Air$238 million · 15.9%

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

How much each matters to the other

Spain was Croatia’s 14th largest trading partner (2% of its trade), and Croatia was Spain’s 65th (0.2%).

Spain in Croatia’s trade
2.2%
Spain’s rank among Croatia’s partners
14th
Croatia in Spain’s trade
0.2%
Croatia’s rank among Spain’s partners
65th

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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.