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Trade between Japan and Sweden

In 2024, Japan exported $1.4 billion to Sweden and imported $2.9 billion. Japan ran a deficit of $1.5 billion with Sweden, compared with a deficit of $1.3 billion in 2019. Sweden was Japan’s 40th largest trading partner (0.3% of its trade), and Japan was Sweden’s 15th (1%).

Summary

Japan → Sweden
$1.4billion
Sweden → Japan
$2.9billion
Japan’s balance
-$1.5billion

Balance

Japan’s trade balance with Sweden

Trade between Japan and Sweden is about the same as in 1995

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

  • Exports 1.4
  • Imports 2.9
  • Balance -1.5

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$1.9 billion$2.6 billion-$705 million
1996$1.6 billion$2.8 billion-$1.2 billion
1997$1.7 billion$2.5 billion-$858 million
1998$1.7 billion$1.9 billion-$288 million
1999$1.7 billion$2.4 billion-$624 million
2000$2.1 billion$2.7 billion-$574 million
2001$1.4 billion$2.2 billion-$741 million
2002$1.5 billion$2 billion-$469 million
2003$1.9 billion$2 billion-$136 million
2004$2.1 billion$2.2 billion-$90 million
2005$2.4 billion$2.1 billion$276 million
2006$2.5 billion$2.3 billion$194 million
2007$2.7 billion$2.2 billion$439 million
2008$2.6 billion$2.1 billion$570 million
2009$1.8 billion$1.6 billion$169 million
2010$2.4 billion$2.1 billion$363 million
2011$2.2 billion$2.5 billion-$299 million
2012$2.2 billion$2.5 billion-$289 million
2013$1.7 billion$2.3 billion-$656 million
2014$1.7 billion$2.2 billion-$456 million
2015$1.5 billion$1.9 billion-$378 million
2016$1.7 billion$2.2 billion-$485 million
2017$1.7 billion$2.5 billion-$772 million
2018$2 billion$2.8 billion-$789 million
2019$1.6 billion$2.9 billion-$1.3 billion
2020$1.1 billion$2.8 billion-$1.7 billion
2021$1.4 billion$3.1 billion-$1.7 billion
2022$1.4 billion$3.3 billion-$1.9 billion
2023$1.6 billion$2.7 billion-$1.1 billion
2024$1.4 billion$2.9 billion-$1.5 billion

What they sell each other

What Japan sells to Sweden

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

  1. Auto parts$389 million · 27.2%
    28 thousand tonnes · Japan’s destinations
  2. Cars$206 million · 14.4%
    16 thousand tonnes · Japan’s destinations
  3. New tires$67 million · 4.7%
    13 thousand tonnes · Japan’s destinations
  4. Physical and chemical analysis instruments$47 million · 3.3%
    354 tonnes
  5. Mounted lenses and objectives$45 million · 3.2%
    49 tonnes
  6. Spark plugs, starters and ignition equipment$36 million · 2.5%
    2 thousand tonnes
  7. Transmission shafts, gears and gearboxes$30 million · 2.1%
    2 thousand tonnes
  8. Engine parts$27 million · 1.9%
    608 tonnes
  9. Other industrial machines$24 million · 1.7%
    642 tonnes
  10. Metal lathes$22 million · 1.5%
    933 tonnes

What Sweden sells to Japan

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

  1. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$728 million · 25.2%
    434 tonnes · Sweden’s destinations
  2. Vaccines, blood and antisera$316 million · 10.9%
    19 tonnes · Sweden’s destinations
  3. Sawn wood$215 million · 7.4%
    410 thousand tonnes · Sweden’s destinations
  4. Video recorders and players$189 million · 6.5%
    249 tonnes
  5. Other plastic articles$87 million · 3%
    234 tonnes
  6. Tractors$78 million · 2.7%
    6 thousand tonnes · Sweden’s destinations
  7. Auto parts$77 million · 2.7%
    8 thousand tonnes · Sweden’s destinations
  8. Other industrial machines$56 million · 1.9%
    394 tonnes
  9. Physical and chemical analysis instruments$49 million · 1.7%
    100 tonnes
  10. Cars$48 million · 1.7%
    2 thousand tonnes · Sweden’s destinations

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Yokohama to Gothenburg.

The estimated sea route between Yokohama and Gothenburg is 15,422 nautical miles (28,561 km) long: ≈ 35.5–46 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Because of the 2024 disruptions, traffic is split: 85% via the Strait of Malacca and Singapore, the Cape of Good Hope and the Strait of Dover (15,422 nautical miles); and 15% via the Strait of Malacca and Singapore, the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, the Suez Canal, the Strait of Gibraltar and the Strait of Dover (11,975 nautical miles).

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$2 billion · 47.3%
  2. Air$2.3 billion · 52.7%

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

How much each matters to the other

Sweden was Japan’s 40th largest trading partner (0.3% of its trade), and Japan was Sweden’s 15th (1%).

Sweden in Japan’s trade
0.3%
Sweden’s rank among Japan’s partners
40th
Japan in Sweden’s trade
1.2%
Japan’s rank among Sweden’s partners
15th

Compare with

Other partners of Japan

Other partners of Sweden

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.