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Trade between Germany and Greece

In 2024, Germany exported $9.4 billion to Greece and imported $3.4 billion. Germany ran a surplus of $6 billion with Greece, compared with a surplus of $4.3 billion in 2019. Greece was Germany’s 37th largest trading partner (0.5% of its trade), and Germany was Greece’s largest (9%).

Summary

Germany → Greece
$9.4billion
Greece → Germany
$3.4billion
Germany’s balance
$6billion

Balance

Germany’s trade balance with Greece

Trade between Germany and Greece grew 2-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 9.4
  • Imports 3.4
  • Balance +6

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$4.3 billion$2.3 billion$2 billion
1996$4.2 billion$2.2 billion$2 billion
1997$3.8 billion$1.9 billion$1.9 billion
1998$4.5 billion$1.9 billion$2.6 billion
1999$4.6 billion$1.7 billion$2.9 billion
2000$3.9 billion$1.4 billion$2.5 billion
2001$4.5 billion$1.5 billion$3 billion
2002$4.2 billion$1.5 billion$2.7 billion
2003$5.7 billion$1.7 billion$4.1 billion
2004$7.1 billion$1.8 billion$5.3 billion
2005$7.4 billion$2.1 billion$5.3 billion
2006$7.9 billion$2.3 billion$5.6 billion
2007$9.6 billion$2.6 billion$7 billion
2008$11.5 billion$2.9 billion$8.6 billion
2009$9.1 billion$2.4 billion$6.7 billion
2010$7.1 billion$2.5 billion$4.6 billion
2011$6.8 billion$2.6 billion$4.1 billion
2012$5.8 billion$2.3 billion$3.5 billion
2013$5.9 billion$2.3 billion$3.6 billion
2014$6.3 billion$2.3 billion$4 billion
2015$4.9 billion$2 billion$2.9 billion
2016$5.2 billion$2.1 billion$3.1 billion
2017$5.9 billion$2.1 billion$3.7 billion
2018$6.6 billion$2.2 billion$4.4 billion
2019$6.6 billion$2.3 billion$4.3 billion
2020$6.9 billion$2.6 billion$4.3 billion
2021$8.2 billion$3.2 billion$5 billion
2022$9.5 billion$3.2 billion$6.3 billion
2023$9 billion$3.4 billion$5.6 billion
2024$9.4 billion$3.4 billion$6 billion

What they sell each other

What Germany sells to Greece

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

  1. Oxygen heterocyclic compounds$1 billion · 10.9%
    62 tonnes
  2. Cars$916 million · 9.7%
    59 thousand tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  3. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$629 million · 6.7%
    7 thousand tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  4. Cheese$243 million · 2.6%
    54 thousand tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  5. Vaccines, blood and antisera$230 million · 2.4%
    2 thousand tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  6. Auto parts$164 million · 1.7%
    13 thousand tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  7. Cameras and broadcast equipment$137 million · 1.5%
    182 tonnes
  8. Other plastic articles$125 million · 1.3%
    4 thousand tonnes
  9. Pork$118 million · 1.3%
    31 thousand tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  10. Medical and dental instruments$118 million · 1.3%
    2 thousand tonnes · Germany’s destinations

What Greece sells to Germany

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

  1. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$320 million · 9.3%
    12 thousand tonnes · Greece’s destinations
  2. Cheese$271 million · 7.9%
    36 thousand tonnes · Germany’s sources
  3. Batteries$162 million · 4.7%
    46 thousand tonnes · Germany’s sources
  4. Aluminum sheet$148 million · 4.3%
    40 thousand tonnes
  5. LCD panels, lasers and other optical devices$125 million · 3.6%
    69 tonnes
  6. Aluminum bars and profiles$116 million · 3.4%
    28 thousand tonnes
  7. Other processed tobacco$114 million · 3.3%
    3 thousand tonnes
  8. Olive oil$110 million · 3.2%
    10 thousand tonnes
  9. Other fresh fruit (berries, kiwi)$94 million · 2.7%
    35 thousand tonnes
  10. Canned vegetables$92 million · 2.7%
    30 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Hamburg to Piraeus.

The estimated sea route between Hamburg and Piraeus is 3,243 nautical miles (6,005 km) long: ≈ 7.5–9.5 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$8.8 billion · 68.8%
  2. Air$4 billion · 31.2%

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

How much each matters to the other

Greece was Germany’s 37th largest trading partner (0.5% of its trade), and Germany was Greece’s largest (9%).

Greece in Germany’s trade
0.5%
Greece’s rank among Germany’s partners
37th
Germany in Greece’s trade
9%
Germany’s rank among Greece’s partners
1st

Compare with

Other partners of Germany

Other partners of Greece

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.