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Trade between Qatar and the United Kingdom

In 2024, Qatar exported $493 million to the United Kingdom and imported $2 billion. Qatar ran a deficit of $1.5 billion with the United Kingdom, compared with a deficit of $283 million in 2019. The United Kingdom was Qatar’s 11th largest trading partner (2% of its trade), and Qatar was the United Kingdom’s 52nd (0.2%).

Summary

Qatar → United Kingdom
$493million
United Kingdom → Qatar
$2billion
Qatar’s balance
-$1.5billion

Balance

Qatar’s trade balance with the United Kingdom

Trade between Qatar and the United Kingdom grew 10.9-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 0.5
  • Imports 2
  • Balance -1.5

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$19 million$212 million-$194 million
1996$12 million$278 million-$266 million
1997$21 million$936 million-$915 million
1998$45 million$363 million-$318 million
1999$30 million$215 million-$185 million
2000$21 million$349 million-$328 million
2001$14 million$362 million-$348 million
2002$26 million$403 million-$377 million
2003$72 million$446 million-$374 million
2004$149 million$422 million-$272 million
2005$198 million$651 million-$453 million
2006$128 million$904 million-$776 million
2007$223 million$1.2 billion-$1 billion
2008$215 million$1.4 billion-$1.2 billion
2009$1 billion$1.2 billion-$114 million
2010$3.1 billion$1.2 billion$1.9 billion
2011$6.7 billion$1.7 billion$5 billion
2012$8.9 billion$1.6 billion$7.3 billion
2013$6.9 billion$1.6 billion$5.3 billion
2014$2.8 billion$1.9 billion$926 million
2015$3.1 billion$3.1 billion$3 million
2016$1.5 billion$1.5 billion$52 million
2017$1.5 billion$1.6 billion-$172 million
2018$1.3 billion$2 billion-$744 million
2019$1.9 billion$2.2 billion-$283 million
2020$1.2 billion$2.2 billion-$988 million
2021$5.1 billion$1.7 billion$3.3 billion
2022$8.6 billion$3.1 billion$5.5 billion
2023$3.2 billion$2.3 billion$867 million
2024$493 million$2 billion-$1.5 billion

What they sell each other

What Qatar sells to the United Kingdom

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

  1. Refined petroleum$275 million · 55.9%
    339 thousand tonnes · Qatar’s destinations
  2. Natural gas and LPG$132 million · 26.9%
    581 thousand tonnes
  3. Jewelry$28 million · 5.8%
    the United Kingdom’s sources
  4. Hydrogen and rare gases$12 million · 2.5%
    213 tonnes
  5. Polyethylene$9 million · 1.9%
    8 thousand tonnes · Qatar’s destinations
  6. Raw silk$6 million · 1.1%
    1 tonne
  7. Chemically modified fats and oils$4 million · 0.84%
    4 thousand tonnes
  8. Precious metal scrap$4 million · 0.78%
    65 tonnes
  9. Cars$3 million · 0.64%
    40 tonnes · the United Kingdom’s sources
  10. Flow, level and pressure meters$3 million · 0.53%

What the United Kingdom sells to Qatar

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

  1. Turbojets and gas turbines$613 million · 30.2%
    1 thousand tonnes · the United Kingdom’s destinations
  2. Airplanes and helicopters$457 million · 22.5%
    51 tonnes · the United Kingdom’s destinations
  3. Cars$66 million · 3.2%
    2 thousand tonnes · the United Kingdom’s destinations
  4. Valves and taps$59 million · 2.9%
    1 thousand tonnes
  5. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$34 million · 1.7%
    329 tonnes · the United Kingdom’s destinations
  6. Crude petroleum$30 million · 1.5%
    52 thousand tonnes · the United Kingdom’s destinations
  7. Aircraft parts$23 million · 1.2%
    72 tonnes
  8. Liquid pumps$23 million · 1.1%
    402 tonnes
  9. Diamonds$23 million · 1.1%
  10. Gold$19 million · 0.96%
    the United Kingdom’s destinations

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Hamad Port to Felixstowe.

The estimated sea route between Hamad Port and Felixstowe is 11,470 nautical miles (21,242 km) long: ≈ 26.5–34 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Because of the 2024 disruptions, traffic is split: 85% via the Strait of Hormuz, the Cape of Good Hope and the Strait of Dover (11,470 nautical miles); and 15% via the Strait of Hormuz, the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, the Suez Canal, the Strait of Gibraltar and the Strait of Dover (6,548 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$862 million · 34.1%
  2. Air$1.7 billion · 65.9%

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

How much each matters to the other

The United Kingdom was Qatar’s 11th largest trading partner (2% of its trade), and Qatar was the United Kingdom’s 52nd (0.2%).

The United Kingdom in Qatar’s trade
2%
The United Kingdom’s rank among Qatar’s partners
11th
Qatar in the United Kingdom’s trade
0.2%
Qatar’s rank among the United Kingdom’s partners
52nd

Compare with

Other partners of Qatar

Other partners of the United Kingdom

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.