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Trade between Germany and Israel

In 2024, Germany exported $6.4 billion to Israel and imported $2.9 billion. Germany ran a surplus of $3.6 billion with Israel, compared with a surplus of $2.6 billion in 2019. Israel was Germany’s 44th largest trading partner (0.3% of its trade), and Germany was Israel’s 3rd (6%).

Summary

Germany → Israel
$6.4billion
Israel → Germany
$2.9billion
Germany’s balance
$3.6billion

Balance

Germany’s trade balance with Israel

Trade between Germany and Israel grew 2.4-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 6.4
  • Imports 2.9
  • Balance +3.6

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$2.7 billion$1.2 billion$1.6 billion
1996$2.8 billion$1.2 billion$1.7 billion
1997$3 billion$1.1 billion$1.9 billion
1998$2.4 billion$1.3 billion$1.1 billion
1999$2.4 billion$1.5 billion$914 million
2000$2.8 billion$1.8 billion$997 million
2001$2.8 billion$1.8 billion$988 million
2002$2.5 billion$1.4 billion$1 billion
2003$2.9 billion$1.4 billion$1.5 billion
2004$3.2 billion$1.5 billion$1.7 billion
2005$3.2 billion$1.5 billion$1.6 billion
2006$3.4 billion$2 billion$1.4 billion
2007$3.5 billion$2.1 billion$1.4 billion
2008$4 billion$2.2 billion$1.7 billion
2009$3.5 billion$1.9 billion$1.6 billion
2010$3.7 billion$2.2 billion$1.5 billion
2011$4.6 billion$2.5 billion$2.1 billion
2012$4.6 billion$1.9 billion$2.6 billion
2013$4.6 billion$2 billion$2.6 billion
2014$4.6 billion$2.1 billion$2.5 billion
2015$3.8 billion$1.8 billion$2 billion
2016$4.1 billion$1.8 billion$2.3 billion
2017$4.7 billion$1.9 billion$2.8 billion
2018$4.9 billion$2.2 billion$2.7 billion
2019$4.9 billion$2.2 billion$2.6 billion
2020$5.1 billion$2.2 billion$3 billion
2021$6.4 billion$2.4 billion$4.1 billion
2022$6.9 billion$2.5 billion$4.4 billion
2023$5.7 billion$2.8 billion$3 billion
2024$6.4 billion$2.9 billion$3.6 billion

What they sell each other

What Germany sells to Israel

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

  1. Cars$610 million · 9.5%
    18 thousand tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  2. Self-propelled trains and trams$239 million · 3.7%
    3 thousand tonnes
  3. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$188 million · 2.9%
    10 thousand tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  4. Trucks$163 million · 2.5%
    8 thousand tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  5. Passenger rail coaches$155 million · 2.4%
    3 thousand tonnes
  6. Vaccines, blood and antisera$152 million · 2.4%
    94 tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  7. Other industrial machines$144 million · 2.2%
    2 thousand tonnes
  8. Medical and dental instruments$126 million · 2%
    678 tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  9. Turbojets and gas turbines$121 million · 1.9%
    38 tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  10. Diodes, transistors and solar cells$102 million · 1.6%
    9 thousand tonnes

What Israel sells to Germany

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

  1. Airplanes and helicopters$291 million · 10.2%
    92 tonnes · Germany’s sources
  2. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$225 million · 7.9%
    696 tonnes · Israel’s destinations
  3. Medical and dental instruments$155 million · 5.4%
    450 tonnes · Israel’s destinations
  4. Avocados, mangoes, pineapples and dates$89 million · 3.1%
    21 thousand tonnes
  5. Orthopedic and hearing devices$79 million · 2.8%
    35 tonnes
  6. Pesticides and herbicides$62 million · 2.2%
    5 thousand tonnes
  7. Turbojets and gas turbines$61 million · 2.1%
    58 tonnes · Germany’s sources
  8. Other measuring instruments$61 million · 2.1%
    107 tonnes
  9. Resistors$61 million · 2.1%
    132 tonnes
  10. Microchips$54 million · 1.9%
    234 tonnes · Israel’s destinations

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Hamburg to Haifa.

The estimated sea route between Hamburg and Haifa is 3,808 nautical miles (7,053 km) long: ≈ 9–11.5 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$4.4 billion · 47.9%
  2. Air$4.8 billion · 52.1%

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

How much each matters to the other

Israel was Germany’s 44th largest trading partner (0.3% of its trade), and Germany was Israel’s 3rd (6%).

Israel in Germany’s trade
0.3%
Israel’s rank among Germany’s partners
44th
Germany in Israel’s trade
6%
Germany’s rank among Israel’s partners
3rd

Compare with

Other partners of Germany

Other partners of Israel

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.