Composition development in goods exports: flow characteristics

Composition development in goods exports: flow characteristics

Export characteristics Periods Export growth (1 000 euros) Contribution to total export growth (%)
Total 2023* -44,239,622 -6.1
Exports of Dutch products 2023* -43,995,863 -6.1
Re-exports 2023* -243,760 0.0
Australia 2023* 200,161 0.0
Belgium 2023* -8,389,073 -1.1
Brazil 2023* 291,309 0.0
Bulgaria 2023* -95,611 0.0
Canada 2023* -760,955 -0.1
Cayman Islands 2023* 917,557 0.1
China 2023* 3,368,386 0.5
Denmark 2023* -505,431 -0.1
Germany 2023* -22,685,506 -3.1
Egypt 2023* -240,882 0.0
Finland 2023* -635,127 -0.1
France 2023* -3,540,420 -0.5
Greece 2023* 354,671 0.0
Hungary 2023* -152,455 0.0
Hong Kong 2023* 32,749 0.0
Ireland 2023* 1,052,829 0.1
India 2023* -502,414 -0.1
Israel 2023* -289,589 0.0
Italy 2023* -1,678,257 -0.2
Japan 2023* -134,965 0.0
Lithuania 2023* -140,997 0.0
Luxembourg 2023* -364,415 0.0
Malaysia 2023* 105,434 0.0
Morocco 2023* -180,973 0.0
Mexico 2023* -1,409,927 -0.2
Nigeria 2023* -3,811,869 -0.5
Norway 2023* -432,272 -0.1
Ukraine 2023* 154,755 0.0
Austria 2023* -366,464 -0.1
Poland 2023* -329,923 0.0
Portugal 2023* -162,394 0.0
Romania 2023* 277,424 0.0
Russia 2023* -1,334,127 -0.2
Saudi Arabia 2023* 228,735 0.0
Singapore 2023* -75,731 0.0
Slovakia 2023* 149,589 0.0
Spain 2023* 457,129 0.1
Taiwan 2023* -3,312,569 -0.5
Thailand 2023* -24,330 0.0
Togo 2023* 191,529 0.0
Czech Republic 2023* -486,349 -0.1
Turkey 2023* 448,655 0.1
United Kingdom 2023* -578,388 -0.1
United Arab Emirates 2023* 497,095 0.1
United States 2023* -4,150 0.0
Viet Nam 2023* 137,135 0.0
South Africa 2023* -97,718 0.0
South Korea 2023* 837,076 0.1
Sweden 2023* 31,104 0.0
Switzerland 2023* 873,890 0.1
Other countries 2023* -2,123,552 -0.3
0 Food and live animals 2023* 3,981,268 0.5
00 Live animals other than animals of... 2023* 324,394 0.0
01 Meat and meat preparations 2023* 208,848 0.0
02 Dairy products and birds' eggs 2023* -249,366 0.0
03 Fish (not marine mammals), crustac... 2023* -81,411 0.0
04 Cereals and cereal preparations 2023* 473,178 0.1
05 Vegetables and fruit 2023* 2,783,236 0.4
06 Sugars, sugar preparations and honey 2023* 415,552 0.1
07 Coffee, tea, cocoa, spices and man... 2023* 981,387 0.1
08 Feeding stuff for animals (not inc... 2023* -298,252 0.0
09 Miscellaneous edible products and ... 2023* -576,298 -0.1
1 Beverages and tobacco 2023* 140,497 0.0
11 Beverages 2023* -30,860 0.0
12 Tobacco and tobacco manufactures 2023* 171,358 0.0
2 Crude materials, inedible, except f... 2023* -1,874,190 -0.3
21 Hides, skins and furskins, raw 2023* 13,009 0.0
22 Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits 2023* -491,143 -0.1
23 Crude rubber (including synthetic ... 2023* -141,369 0.0
24 Cork and wood 2023* -277,471 0.0
25 Pulp and waste paper 2023* -147,824 0.0
26 Textile fibres (other than combed ... 2023* 71,142 0.0
27 Crude fertilizers, other than thos... 2023* -209,503 0.0
28 Metalliferous ores and metal scrap 2023* -682,024 -0.1
29 Crude animal and vegetable materia... 2023* -9,007 0.0
3 Mineral fuels, lubricants and relat... 2023* -40,674,156 -5.6
32 Coal, coke and briquettes 2023* -940,897 -0.1
33 Petroleum, petroleum products and ... 2023* . .
34 Gas, natural and manufactured 2023* -21,411,440 -2.9
35 Electric current 2023* -171,277 0.0
4 Animal and vegetable oils, fats and... 2023* -1,212,253 -0.2
41 Animal oils and fats 2023* 68,343 0.0
42 Fixed vegetable fats and oils, cru... 2023* -1,055,678 -0.1
43 Animal or vegetable fats and oils,... 2023* -224,919 0.0
5 Chemicals and related products, n.e.s. 2023* -12,088,128 -1.7
51 Organic chemicals 2023* -4,827,708 -0.7
52 Inorganic chemicals 2023* -1,130,562 -0.2
53 Dyeing, tanning and colouring mate... 2023* -207,871 0.0
54 Medicinal and pharmaceutical products 2023* 4,436,189 0.6
55 Essential oils and resinoids and p... 2023* 150,041 0.0
56 Fertilizers (other than those of g... 2023* -1,487,712 -0.2
57 Plastics in primary forms 2023* -5,199,068 -0.7
58 Plastics in non-primary forms 2023* -460,714 -0.1
59 Chemical materials and products, n... 2023* -3,360,723 -0.5
6 Manufactured goods classified chief... 2023* -7,003,590 -1.0
60 Components of complete industrial ... 2023* . .
61 Leather, leather manufactures, n.e... 2023* -55,414 0.0
Source: CBS.
Explanation of symbols

Table explanation


This dataset provides figures on the development of export value and the contributions made by the various sections and divisions according to the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC), destination countries according to the Geonomenclature (GEONOM) and broken down by export flow (re-exports and domestic exports).

Data available as of: 2012.

Status of the figures:
The figures from 2012 to 2020 are final. The figures from 2021 are provisional.
The provisional figures on international trade can be adjusted based on new or changed source material. As a result, they are provisional for a longer period of time. The provisional figures usually become final in the fourth quarter after the reporting year. All previous years are already final. After a method break, the annual changes compared to the previous year are missing.

As of 3 February 2021 the "Export growth" of SITC 34 "Gas, natural and manufactured" over the year 2016 and the "Export growth" and "Contribution to total export growth" of SITC 60 and SITC 80 "Components of complete industrial plants (sections 6 and 8)" over the year 2018 have been modified in order to be consistent with the related StatLine table International trade; import and export value, SITC (3 digits), countries.

Changes as of 7 July 2025:
The provisional figures for 2023 have been added.

When will new figures become available?
New figures will be published in Q4 of the year following the reporting year.

Description topics

Export growth
Year-on-year changes in absolute value. Annual changes for 2015 were omitted due to the break in series 2014/2015.
Contribution to total export growth
The contribution of a specific category to the total percentage growth in goods exports, calculated by dividing the absolute change in a category by the total value change of goods exports, multiplied by the annual change of goods exports as a percentage.