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Trade between Latvia and Sweden

In 2024, Latvia exported $975 million to Sweden and imported $708 million. Latvia ran a surplus of $267 million with Sweden, compared with a surplus of $377 million in 2019. Sweden was Latvia’s 7th largest trading partner (4% of its trade), and Latvia was Sweden’s 31st (0.5%).

Summary

Latvia → Sweden
$975million
Sweden → Latvia
$708million
Latvia’s balance
$267million

Balance

Latvia’s trade balance with Sweden

Trade between Latvia and Sweden grew 3.1-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 1
  • Imports 0.7
  • Balance +0.3

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$394 million$151 million$242 million
1996$380 million$221 million$159 million
1997$377 million$217 million$160 million
1998$351 million$258 million$93 million
1999$309 million$217 million$92 million
2000$382 million$178 million$204 million
2001$373 million$188 million$185 million
2002$460 million$221 million$239 million
2003$477 million$309 million$169 million
2004$500 million$415 million$85 million
2005$505 million$427 million$78 million
2006$484 million$556 million-$72 million
2007$824 million$720 million$103 million
2008$926 million$669 million$257 million
2009$759 million$302 million$457 million
2010$602 million$378 million$224 million
2011$826 million$556 million$270 million
2012$637 million$497 million$140 million
2013$616 million$533 million$83 million
2014$665 million$485 million$180 million
2015$602 million$447 million$155 million
2016$614 million$467 million$147 million
2017$649 million$467 million$182 million
2018$935 million$565 million$370 million
2019$937 million$560 million$377 million
2020$861 million$574 million$287 million
2021$950 million$649 million$301 million
2022$1.1 billion$709 million$366 million
2023$1.1 billion$746 million$333 million
2024$975 million$708 million$267 million

What they sell each other

What Latvia sells to Sweden

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

  1. Logs$202 million · 20.7%
    2.2 million tonnes
  2. Firewood and wood chips$95 million · 9.7%
    1.1 million tonnes
  3. Cement and concrete articles$35 million · 3.6%
    71 thousand tonnes
  4. Steel structures$31 million · 3.2%
    13 thousand tonnes
  5. Control panels$30 million · 3.1%
    174 tonnes
  6. Cement$27 million · 2.8%
    281 thousand tonnes
  7. Auto parts$27 million · 2.7%
    4 thousand tonnes · Sweden’s sources
  8. Books and brochures$25 million · 2.5%
    4 thousand tonnes
  9. Wood joinery$25 million · 2.5%
    3 thousand tonnes
  10. Bread, biscuits and pastries$24 million · 2.5%
    7 thousand tonnes

What Sweden sells to Latvia

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

  1. Fresh fish$35 million · 5%
    6 thousand tonnes
  2. Auto parts$33 million · 4.7%
    1 thousand tonnes · Sweden’s destinations
  3. Tractors$33 million · 4.6%
    2 thousand tonnes · Sweden’s destinations
  4. Cars$31 million · 4.3%
    2 thousand tonnes · Sweden’s destinations
  5. Refined petroleum$23 million · 3.3%
    35 thousand tonnes · Sweden’s destinations
  6. 27 tonnes · Sweden’s destinations
  7. Frozen fish$21 million · 3%
    5 thousand tonnes
  8. Sawn wood$18 million · 2.6%
    44 thousand tonnes · Sweden’s destinations
  9. 426 tonnes
  10. Coffee$14 million · 2%
    3 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Riga to Gothenburg.

The estimated sea route between Riga and Gothenburg is 651 nautical miles (1,205 km) long: ≈ 1.5–2 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Øresund.

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$1.5 billion · 87.4%
  2. Air$212 million · 12.6%

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

How much each matters to the other

Sweden was Latvia’s 7th largest trading partner (4% of its trade), and Latvia was Sweden’s 31st (0.5%).

Sweden in Latvia’s trade
4.2%
Sweden’s rank among Latvia’s partners
7th
Latvia in Sweden’s trade
0.5%
Latvia’s rank among Sweden’s partners
31st

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Sources and methodology

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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.