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Trade between Denmark and Spain

In 2024, Denmark exported $2.6 billion to Spain and imported $2.5 billion. Denmark ran a surplus of $161 million with Spain, compared with a surplus of $241 million in 2019. Spain was Denmark’s 12th largest trading partner (2% of its trade), and Denmark was Spain’s 29th (0.6%).

Summary

Denmark → Spain
$2.6billion
Spain → Denmark
$2.5billion
Denmark’s balance
$161million

Balance

Denmark’s trade balance with Spain

Trade between Denmark and Spain grew 3.4-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 2.6
  • Imports 2.5
  • Balance +0.2

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$957 million$542 million$416 million
1996$1.1 billion$552 million$547 million
1997$959 million$676 million$283 million
1998$1.1 billion$711 million$398 million
1999$1.2 billion$708 million$505 million
2000$1.1 billion$731 million$388 million
2001$1.2 billion$740 million$417 million
2002$1.4 billion$953 million$494 million
2003$1.8 billion$1 billion$777 million
2004$2 billion$1.2 billion$802 million
2005$2.1 billion$1.5 billion$599 million
2006$2.4 billion$1.6 billion$816 million
2007$2.8 billion$1.8 billion$975 million
2008$3.2 billion$1.9 billion$1.3 billion
2009$2.6 billion$1.2 billion$1.4 billion
2010$2.4 billion$1.2 billion$1.2 billion
2011$2.8 billion$1.5 billion$1.3 billion
2012$1.9 billion$1.4 billion$483 million
2013$1.9 billion$1.6 billion$290 million
2014$2 billion$1.6 billion$421 million
2015$1.9 billion$1.5 billion$328 million
2016$2 billion$1.5 billion$538 million
2017$2.1 billion$1.6 billion$493 million
2018$2.3 billion$1.9 billion$369 million
2019$2.1 billion$1.9 billion$241 million
2020$2.1 billion$1.8 billion$286 million
2021$2.7 billion$2.4 billion$272 million
2022$3.1 billion$2.2 billion$843 million
2023$2.7 billion$2.3 billion$419 million
2024$2.6 billion$2.5 billion$161 million

What they sell each other

What Denmark sells to Spain

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

  1. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$548 million · 20.7%
    1 thousand tonnes · Denmark’s destinations
  2. Fresh fish$131 million · 5%
    15 thousand tonnes
  3. Cheese$102 million · 3.8%
    20 thousand tonnes · Denmark’s destinations
  4. Enzymes$69 million · 2.6%
    6 thousand tonnes
  5. Generating sets$58 million · 2.2%
    6 thousand tonnes
  6. Other pharmaceutical goods$53 million · 2%
    11 tonnes
  7. Dried, salted and smoked fish$51 million · 1.9%
    6 thousand tonnes
  8. Auto parts$48 million · 1.8%
    5 thousand tonnes · Spain’s sources
  9. Transmission shafts, gears and gearboxes$39 million · 1.5%
    6 thousand tonnes
  10. Hot-rolled flat steel$38 million · 1.4%
    45 thousand tonnes

What Spain sells to Denmark

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

  1. Cars$387 million · 15.6%
    24 thousand tonnes · Spain’s destinations
  2. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$159 million · 6.4%
    714 tonnes · Spain’s destinations
  3. Wine$83 million · 3.4%
    26 thousand tonnes · Spain’s destinations
  4. Trucks$69 million · 2.8%
    5 thousand tonnes · Spain’s destinations
  5. Other fresh vegetables$58 million · 2.3%
    20 thousand tonnes
  6. Citrus fruit$57 million · 2.3%
    42 thousand tonnes · Spain’s destinations
  7. Cables and wire$46 million · 1.9%
    8 thousand tonnes · Spain’s destinations
  8. Steel structures$41 million · 1.7%
    14 thousand tonnes
  9. Plastic packaging$33 million · 1.3%
    10 thousand tonnes
  10. Cucumbers and gherkins$33 million · 1.3%
    15 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Aarhus to Valencia.

The estimated sea route between Aarhus and Valencia is 2,366 nautical miles (4,381 km) long: ≈ 5.5–7 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

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

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$3.9 billion · 75.4%
  2. Air$1.3 billion · 24.6%

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

How much each matters to the other

Spain was Denmark’s 12th largest trading partner (2% of its trade), and Denmark was Spain’s 29th (0.6%).

Spain in Denmark’s trade
2.2%
Spain’s rank among Denmark’s partners
12th
Denmark in Spain’s trade
0.6%
Denmark’s rank among Spain’s partners
29th

Compare with

Other partners of Denmark

Other partners of Spain

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.