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Trade between the Netherlands and Saudi Arabia

In 2024, the Netherlands exported $3.7 billion to Saudi Arabia and imported $4 billion. The Netherlands ran a deficit of $294 million with Saudi Arabia, compared with a surplus of $985 million in 2019. Saudi Arabia was the Netherlands’ 31st largest trading partner (0.6% of its trade), and the Netherlands was Saudi Arabia’s 18th (1%).

Summary

Netherlands → Saudi Arabia
$3.7billion
Saudi Arabia → Netherlands
$4billion
The Netherlands’ balance
-$294million

Balance

The Netherlands’ trade balance with Saudi Arabia

Trade between the Netherlands and Saudi Arabia grew 2.9-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 3.7
  • Imports 4
  • Balance -0.3

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$674 million$1.9 billion-$1.3 billion
1996$653 million$1.8 billion-$1.2 billion
1997$654 million$2.2 billion-$1.6 billion
1998$615 million$1.4 billion-$778 million
1999$631 million$1.3 billion-$689 million
2000$716 million$2.6 billion-$1.9 billion
2001$737 million$2.1 billion-$1.4 billion
2002$810 million$1.5 billion-$703 million
2003$1.1 billion$2.3 billion-$1.2 billion
2004$1.1 billion$3.7 billion-$2.6 billion
2005$1.3 billion$5.1 billion-$3.8 billion
2006$1.5 billion$5.6 billion-$4.2 billion
2007$1.7 billion$4.5 billion-$2.8 billion
2008$1.9 billion$5.1 billion-$3.3 billion
2009$1.6 billion$2 billion-$372 million
2010$1.8 billion$3.2 billion-$1.4 billion
2011$1.9 billion$5.5 billion-$3.6 billion
2012$2.3 billion$6.1 billion-$3.9 billion
2013$2.2 billion$5.1 billion-$3 billion
2014$2.7 billion$4.5 billion-$1.8 billion
2015$2.2 billion$1.5 billion$646 million
2016$1.8 billion$1.9 billion-$116 million
2017$2.2 billion$1.8 billion$375 million
2018$3 billion$2.9 billion$120 million
2019$3.3 billion$2.3 billion$985 million
2020$2.5 billion$1.7 billion$805 million
2021$2.5 billion$2.7 billion-$207 million
2022$2.8 billion$6.7 billion-$3.9 billion
2023$3.3 billion$4.3 billion-$944 million
2024$3.7 billion$4 billion-$294 million

What they sell each other

What the Netherlands sells to Saudi Arabia

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

  1. Refined petroleum$809 million · 22%
    1.1 million tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  2. Cameras and broadcast equipment$152 million · 4.1%
    499 tonnes
  3. Frozen vegetables$151 million · 4.1%
    91 thousand tonnes
  4. Powdered and condensed milk$132 million · 3.6%
    49 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  5. Medical and dental instruments$101 million · 2.7%
    523 tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  6. Computers$95 million · 2.6%
    645 tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  7. Turbojets and gas turbines$88 million · 2.4%
    88 tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  8. Vaccines, blood and antisera$87 million · 2.4%
    120 tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  9. Malt extract and food mixes$85 million · 2.3%
    26 thousand tonnes
  10. Coal tar oils$82 million · 2.2%
    83 thousand tonnes

What Saudi Arabia sells to the Netherlands

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

  1. Crude petroleum$2.5 billion · 63.7%
    4 million tonnes · Saudi Arabia’s destinations
  2. Refined petroleum$542 million · 13.6%
    639 thousand tonnes · Saudi Arabia’s destinations
  3. Coal tar oils$153 million · 3.9%
    231 thousand tonnes
  4. Chemically modified fats and oils$95 million · 2.4%
    92 thousand tonnes
  5. Acrylic acid and other unsaturated acids$94 million · 2.4%
    33 thousand tonnes
  6. Aluminum sheet$70 million · 1.8%
    23 thousand tonnes
  7. Turbojets and gas turbines$56 million · 1.4%
    98 tonnes · the Netherlands’ sources
  8. Spark-ignition engines$51 million · 1.3%
    25 tonnes
  9. Alcohols$40 million · 1%
    51 thousand tonnes
  10. Polypropylene$38 million · 0.96%
    33 thousand tonnes · Saudi Arabia’s destinations

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Rotterdam to Jeddah.

The estimated sea route between Rotterdam and Jeddah is 4,195 nautical miles (7,768 km) long: ≈ 9.5–12.5 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Strait of Dover, Strait of Gibraltar and Suez 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$6.3 billion · 82.2%
  2. Air$1.4 billion · 17.8%

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

How much each matters to the other

Saudi Arabia was the Netherlands’ 31st largest trading partner (0.6% of its trade), and the Netherlands was Saudi Arabia’s 18th (1%).

Saudi Arabia in the Netherlands’ trade
0.6%
Saudi Arabia’s rank among the Netherlands’ partners
31st
The Netherlands in Saudi Arabia’s trade
1.4%
The Netherlands’ rank among Saudi Arabia’s partners
18th

Compare with

Other partners of the Netherlands

Other partners of Saudi Arabia

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.