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Trade between Germany and Lithuania

In 2024, Germany exported $5.2 billion to Lithuania and imported $2.9 billion. Germany ran a surplus of $2.2 billion with Lithuania, compared with a surplus of $1.8 billion in 2019. Lithuania was Germany’s 49th largest trading partner (0.3% of its trade), and Germany was Lithuania’s 2nd (10%).

Summary

Germany → Lithuania
$5.2billion
Lithuania → Germany
$2.9billion
Germany’s balance
$2.2billion

Balance

Germany’s trade balance with Lithuania

Trade between Germany and Lithuania grew 7.9-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 5.2
  • Imports 2.9
  • Balance +2.2

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$554 million$462 million$92 million
1996$736 million$526 million$211 million
1997$1.1 billion$547 million$507 million
1998$1.2 billion$566 million$585 million
1999$877 million$564 million$312 million
2000$834 million$579 million$255 million
2001$1.1 billion$670 million$448 million
2002$1.4 billion$687 million$678 million
2003$1.6 billion$852 million$771 million
2004$2.1 billion$934 million$1.1 billion
2005$2.3 billion$1 billion$1.3 billion
2006$2.9 billion$1.1 billion$1.8 billion
2007$3.6 billion$1.5 billion$2.1 billion
2008$3.6 billion$1.8 billion$1.8 billion
2009$2 billion$1.6 billion$370 million
2010$2.3 billion$2 billion$333 million
2011$3 billion$2.3 billion$720 million
2012$3 billion$2.3 billion$690 million
2013$3.5 billion$2.3 billion$1.2 billion
2014$3.5 billion$2.1 billion$1.4 billion
2015$3 billion$1.8 billion$1.1 billion
2016$3.3 billion$1.9 billion$1.4 billion
2017$3.7 billion$2 billion$1.7 billion
2018$4.1 billion$2.2 billion$2 billion
2019$4 billion$2.2 billion$1.8 billion
2020$4.1 billion$2.6 billion$1.5 billion
2021$5.4 billion$3.2 billion$2.2 billion
2022$6.2 billion$3.3 billion$2.9 billion
2023$6.2 billion$3 billion$3.2 billion
2024$5.2 billion$2.9 billion$2.2 billion

What they sell each other

What Germany sells to Lithuania

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

  1. Cars$400 million · 7.8%
    25 thousand tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  2. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$251 million · 4.9%
    4 thousand tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  3. Tractors$231 million · 4.5%
    22 thousand tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  4. Trailers$154 million · 3%
    36 thousand tonnes
  5. Microchips$140 million · 2.7%
    458 tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  6. Trucks$132 million · 2.6%
    13 thousand tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  7. Auto parts$91 million · 1.8%
    9 thousand tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  8. Other plastic articles$77 million · 1.5%
    4 thousand tonnes
  9. Cameras and broadcast equipment$74 million · 1.4%
    193 tonnes
  10. Vaccines, blood and antisera$74 million · 1.4%
    54 tonnes · Germany’s destinations

What Lithuania sells to Germany

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

  1. Furniture$245 million · 8.4%
    124 thousand tonnes · Lithuania’s destinations
  2. Rapeseed (canola)$174 million · 6%
    325 thousand tonnes · Germany’s sources
  3. Dried, salted and smoked fish$77 million · 2.6%
    4 thousand tonnes
  4. Plastic packaging$66 million · 2.3%
    27 thousand tonnes
  5. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$59 million · 2.1%
    286 tonnes · Germany’s sources
  6. Wood joinery$59 million · 2%
    19 thousand tonnes
  7. Control panels$58 million · 2%
    748 tonnes
  8. Cars$54 million · 1.9%
    3 thousand tonnes · Germany’s sources
  9. Prepared fish and caviar$46 million · 1.6%
    9 thousand tonnes
  10. Pet and animal feed$45 million · 1.6%
    43 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Hamburg to Klaipeda.

The estimated sea route between Hamburg and Klaipeda is 610 nautical miles (1,129 km) long: ≈ 1.5–2 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Kiel Canal.

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$6.2 billion · 76.6%
  2. Air$1.9 billion · 23.4%

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

How much each matters to the other

Lithuania was Germany’s 49th largest trading partner (0.3% of its trade), and Germany was Lithuania’s 2nd (10%).

Lithuania in Germany’s trade
0.3%
Lithuania’s rank among Germany’s partners
49th
Germany in Lithuania’s trade
10.2%
Germany’s rank among Lithuania’s partners
2nd

Compare with

Other partners of Germany

Other partners of Lithuania

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.