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Trade between Lithuania and the Netherlands

In 2024, Lithuania exported $2.4 billion to the Netherlands and imported $2.1 billion. Lithuania ran a surplus of $226 million with the Netherlands, compared with a deficit of $642 million in 2019. The Netherlands was Lithuania’s 4th largest trading partner (6% of its trade), and Lithuania was the Netherlands’ 42nd (0.4%).

Summary

Lithuania → Netherlands
$2.4billion
Netherlands → Lithuania
$2.1billion
Lithuania’s balance
$226million

Balance

Lithuania’s trade balance with the Netherlands

Trade between Lithuania and the Netherlands grew 13-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 2.4
  • Imports 2.1
  • Balance +0.2

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$236 million$109 million$128 million
1996$145 million$138 million$7 million
1997$155 million$195 million-$41 million
1998$111 million$201 million-$90 million
1999$118 million$180 million-$62 million
2000$151 million$138 million$13 million
2001$187 million$164 million$22 million
2002$250 million$193 million$57 million
2003$222 million$267 million-$46 million
2004$328 million$502 million-$174 million
2005$341 million$575 million-$234 million
2006$413 million$723 million-$310 million
2007$350 million$1 billion-$688 million
2008$800 million$1.1 billion-$272 million
2009$489 million$729 million-$240 million
2010$1.1 billion$1 billion$82 million
2011$2 billion$1.6 billion$451 million
2012$1.8 billion$1.7 billion$120 million
2013$1.4 billion$1.8 billion-$356 million
2014$1.4 billion$1.6 billion-$200 million
2015$1.1 billion$1.4 billion-$301 million
2016$813 million$1.3 billion-$474 million
2017$1 billion$1.6 billion-$507 million
2018$1.1 billion$1.7 billion-$603 million
2019$1.2 billion$1.9 billion-$642 million
2020$1.8 billion$1.8 billion-$14 million
2021$2.2 billion$2.2 billion-$12 million
2022$2.4 billion$2.3 billion$166 million
2023$2.4 billion$2.4 billion$11 million
2024$2.4 billion$2.1 billion$226 million

What they sell each other

What Lithuania sells to the Netherlands

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

  1. Refined petroleum$223 million · 9.4%
    409 thousand tonnes · Lithuania’s destinations
  2. Cigarettes and cigars$210 million · 8.9%
    11 thousand tonnes
  3. Other plastic articles$194 million · 8.2%
    2 thousand tonnes
  4. Coal tar oils$176 million · 7.5%
    626 thousand tonnes
  5. Motorcycles$103 million · 4.4%
    3 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ sources
  6. Furniture$98 million · 4.2%
    52 thousand tonnes · Lithuania’s destinations
  7. Medical and dental instruments$75 million · 3.2%
    1 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ sources
  8. Ethyl alcohol (ethanol)$52 million · 2.2%
    36 thousand tonnes
  9. Cables and wire$51 million · 2.2%
    2 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ sources
  10. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$44 million · 1.9%
    31 tonnes · the Netherlands’ sources

What the Netherlands sells to Lithuania

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

  1. Computers$136 million · 6.4%
    380 tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  2. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$122 million · 5.7%
    286 tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  3. Cameras and broadcast equipment$106 million · 5%
    289 tonnes
  4. Computer and office machine parts$97 million · 4.6%
    2 thousand tonnes
  5. Vaccines, blood and antisera$72 million · 3.4%
    54 tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  6. Tractors$59 million · 2.8%
    6 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  7. Soybean meal and pellets$54 million · 2.5%
    111 thousand tonnes
  8. Polycarboxylic acids$52 million · 2.4%
    68 thousand tonnes
  9. Cars$49 million · 2.3%
    8 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  10. Alcohols$41 million · 1.9%
    67 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Klaipeda to Rotterdam.

The estimated sea route between Klaipeda and Rotterdam is 940 nautical miles (1,740 km) long: ≈ 2–3 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$3.2 billion · 72.1%
  2. Air$1.3 billion · 27.9%

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

How much each matters to the other

The Netherlands was Lithuania’s 4th largest trading partner (6% of its trade), and Lithuania was the Netherlands’ 42nd (0.4%).

The Netherlands in Lithuania’s trade
5.7%
The Netherlands’ rank among Lithuania’s partners
4th
Lithuania in the Netherlands’ trade
0.4%
Lithuania’s rank among the Netherlands’ partners
42nd

Compare with

Other partners of Lithuania

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.