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Trade between Greece and the Netherlands

In 2024, Greece exported $1.2 billion to the Netherlands and imported $4.9 billion. Greece ran a deficit of $3.8 billion with the Netherlands, compared with a deficit of $2.2 billion in 2019. The Netherlands was Greece’s 4th largest trading partner (4% of its trade), and Greece was the Netherlands’ 35th (0.5%).

Summary

Greece → Netherlands
$1.2billion
Netherlands → Greece
$4.9billion
Greece’s balance
-$3.8billion

Balance

Greece’s trade balance with the Netherlands

Trade between Greece and the Netherlands grew 2.8-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 1.2
  • Imports 4.9
  • Balance -3.8

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$302 million$1.9 billion-$1.6 billion
1996$300 million$1.8 billion-$1.5 billion
1997$478 million$1.8 billion-$1.4 billion
1998$315 million$1.9 billion-$1.5 billion
1999$312 million$2 billion-$1.6 billion
2000$308 million$1.9 billion-$1.6 billion
2001$288 million$1.6 billion-$1.3 billion
2002$336 million$1.8 billion-$1.4 billion
2003$441 million$2.4 billion-$1.9 billion
2004$493 million$3 billion-$2.5 billion
2005$466 million$3.1 billion-$2.6 billion
2006$467 million$3.3 billion-$2.8 billion
2007$489 million$3.5 billion-$3 billion
2008$579 million$4.5 billion-$3.9 billion
2009$534 million$3.8 billion-$3.2 billion
2010$539 million$3.5 billion-$2.9 billion
2011$752 million$3.6 billion-$2.8 billion
2012$625 million$2.9 billion-$2.2 billion
2013$704 million$2.8 billion-$2.1 billion
2014$694 million$3.1 billion-$2.4 billion
2015$557 million$2.6 billion-$2.1 billion
2016$631 million$2.6 billion-$2 billion
2017$684 million$2.9 billion-$2.2 billion
2018$699 million$3.2 billion-$2.5 billion
2019$717 million$2.9 billion-$2.2 billion
2020$729 million$3.3 billion-$2.6 billion
2021$1 billion$4.1 billion-$3.1 billion
2022$1.1 billion$4.5 billion-$3.4 billion
2023$1.4 billion$5.2 billion-$3.8 billion
2024$1.2 billion$4.9 billion-$3.8 billion

What they sell each other

What Greece sells to the Netherlands

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

  1. Refined petroleum$274 million · 23.6%
    282 thousand tonnes · Greece’s destinations
  2. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$99 million · 8.6%
    3 thousand tonnes · Greece’s destinations
  3. Cables and wire$58 million · 5%
    9 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ sources
  4. Aluminum bars and profiles$41 million · 3.5%
    8 thousand tonnes
  5. Aluminum sheet$38 million · 3.2%
    9 thousand tonnes
  6. Fresh fish$24 million · 2%
    3 thousand tonnes
  7. Cheese$22 million · 1.9%
    3 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ sources
  8. Cameras and broadcast equipment$19 million · 1.6%
    20 tonnes
  9. Plastic sheets and film$17 million · 1.5%
    5 thousand tonnes
  10. Clays$17 million · 1.5%
    19 thousand tonnes

What the Netherlands sells to Greece

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

  1. Vaccines, blood and antisera$387 million · 7.9%
    113 tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  2. Pork$338 million · 6.9%
    96 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  3. Cheese$214 million · 4.4%
    46 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  4. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$210 million · 4.3%
    1 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  5. Cameras and broadcast equipment$209 million · 4.3%
    1 thousand tonnes
  6. Computers$131 million · 2.7%
    773 tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  7. Medical and dental instruments$130 million · 2.6%
    3 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  8. Orthopedic and hearing devices$115 million · 2.3%
    428 tonnes
  9. Refined copper$110 million · 2.2%
    12 thousand tonnes
  10. Fresh beef$100 million · 2%
    15 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Piraeus to Rotterdam.

The estimated sea route between Piraeus and Rotterdam is 2,976 nautical miles (5,512 km) long: ≈ 7–9 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

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

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$4.3 billion · 70.7%
  2. Air$1.8 billion · 29.3%

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

How much each matters to the other

The Netherlands was Greece’s 4th largest trading partner (4% of its trade), and Greece was the Netherlands’ 35th (0.5%).

The Netherlands in Greece’s trade
4.3%
The Netherlands’ rank among Greece’s partners
4th
Greece in the Netherlands’ trade
0.5%
Greece’s rank among the Netherlands’ partners
35th

Compare with

Other partners of Greece

Other partners of the Netherlands

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.

Hong Kong, Singapore, the Netherlands and Belgium re-export goods from other countries: their figures include transit.