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 2021* 103,928,826 21.5
Exports of Dutch products 2021* 62,772,755 13.0
Re-exports 2021* 41,156,070 8.5
Australia 2021* 327,390 0.1
Belgium 2021* 13,422,777 2.8
Brazil 2021* 769,918 0.2
Bulgaria 2021* 504,621 0.1
Canada 2021* 433,262 0.1
Cayman Islands 2021* 1,065,554 0.2
China 2021* -61,731 0.0
Denmark 2021* 1,403,757 0.3
Germany 2021* 26,601,251 5.5
Egypt 2021* 649,899 0.1
Finland 2021* 1,140,971 0.2
France 2021* 10,238,338 2.1
Greece 2021* 252,915 0.1
Hungary 2021* 963,712 0.2
Hong Kong 2021* -149,127 0.0
Ireland 2021* 1,292,166 0.3
India 2021* 605,295 0.1
Israel 2021* 200,464 0.0
Italy 2021* 6,230,018 1.3
Japan 2021* -501,138 -0.1
Lithuania 2021* 400,538 0.1
Luxembourg 2021* 277,656 0.1
Malaysia 2021* -39,740 0.0
Morocco 2021* 294,506 0.1
Mexico 2021* 510,284 0.1
Nigeria 2021* -76,066 0.0
Norway 2021* 382,144 0.1
Ukraine 2021* 144,383 0.0
Austria 2021* 1,614,202 0.3
Poland 2021* 4,229,309 0.9
Portugal 2021* 867,200 0.2
Romania 2021* 480,446 0.1
Russia 2021* 567,976 0.1
Saudi Arabia 2021* -321,357 -0.1
Singapore 2021* 417,734 0.1
Slovakia 2021* 228,218 0.0
Spain 2021* 4,025,284 0.8
Taiwan 2021* 3,313,757 0.7
Thailand 2021* 88,965 0.0
Togo 2021* -215,443 0.0
Czech Republic 2021* 1,103,514 0.2
Turkey 2021* 563,644 0.1
United Kingdom 2021* 3,062,205 0.6
United Arab Emirates 2021* 198,277 0.0
United States 2021* 3,858,882 0.8
Viet Nam 2021* 2,508 0.0
South Africa 2021* 595,865 0.1
South Korea 2021* 2,099,065 0.4
Sweden 2021* 2,724,975 0.6
Switzerland 2021* 968,305 0.2
Other countries 2021* 6,171,279 1.3
0 Food and live animals 2021* 4,837,863 1.0
00 Live animals other than animals of... 2021* -20,460 0.0
01 Meat and meat preparations 2021* 976,447 0.2
02 Dairy products and birds' eggs 2021* 665,162 0.1
03 Fish (not marine mammals), crustac... 2021* 507,006 0.1
04 Cereals and cereal preparations 2021* 333,761 0.1
05 Vegetables and fruit 2021* 949,637 0.2
06 Sugars, sugar preparations and honey 2021* 205,864 0.0
07 Coffee, tea, cocoa, spices and man... 2021* 670,769 0.1
08 Feeding stuff for animals (not inc... 2021* 479,478 0.1
09 Miscellaneous edible products and ... 2021* 70,199 0.0
1 Beverages and tobacco 2021* 608,214 0.1
11 Beverages 2021* 647,666 0.1
12 Tobacco and tobacco manufactures 2021* -39,452 0.0
2 Crude materials, inedible, except f... 2021* 6,369,237 1.3
21 Hides, skins and furskins, raw 2021* 44,524 0.0
22 Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits 2021* 179,907 0.0
23 Crude rubber (including synthetic ... 2021* 287,703 0.1
24 Cork and wood 2021* 377,906 0.1
25 Pulp and waste paper 2021* 248,440 0.1
26 Textile fibres (other than combed ... 2021* 56,823 0.0
27 Crude fertilizers, other than thos... 2021* 357,640 0.1
28 Metalliferous ores and metal scrap 2021* 2,380,577 0.5
29 Crude animal and vegetable materia... 2021* 2,435,718 0.5
3 Mineral fuels, lubricants and relat... 2021* 27,490,074 5.7
32 Coal, coke and briquettes 2021* 349,419 0.1
33 Petroleum, petroleum products and ... 2021* . .
34 Gas, natural and manufactured 2021* 8,746,484 1.8
35 Electric current 2021* . .
4 Animal and vegetable oils, fats and... 2021* 1,082,932 0.2
41 Animal oils and fats 2021* -12,467 0.0
42 Fixed vegetable fats and oils, cru... 2021* 833,405 0.2
43 Animal or vegetable fats and oils,... 2021* 261,994 0.1
5 Chemicals and related products, n.e.s. 2021* 21,640,604 4.5
51 Organic chemicals 2021* 6,946,044 1.4
52 Inorganic chemicals 2021* 903,876 0.2
53 Dyeing, tanning and colouring mate... 2021* 633,281 0.1
54 Medicinal and pharmaceutical products 2021* 1,445,114 0.3
55 Essential oils and resinoids and p... 2021* 908,999 0.2
56 Fertilizers (other than those of g... 2021* 667,440 0.1
57 Plastics in primary forms 2021* 5,145,481 1.1
58 Plastics in non-primary forms 2021* 613,339 0.1
59 Chemical materials and products, n... 2021* 4,377,029 0.9
6 Manufactured goods classified chief... 2021* 11,212,652 2.3
60 Components of complete industrial ... 2021* . .
61 Leather, leather manufactures, n.e... 2021* 12,591 0.0
Source: CBS.
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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 provisional figures on international trade may be adjusted on the basis of new or revised source data. This means their provisional status may be prolonged. The provisional figures become definitive in Q4 of the year following the reporting year. Figures over the previous years have already become definitive.

Changes as of October 7, 2022:
The final figures for 2020 and the provisional figures for 2021 have been added.

Changes 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.

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.