Photo description: Loading and unloading of a container vessel seen from above.

Dutch Trade 2020
Open or close menu
© Hollandse Hoogte

Dashboard with key findings

Authors: Janneke Rooyakkers, Alex Lammertsma, Hans Draper, Marjolijn Jaarsma, Sarah Creemers

Domestic goods exports €123 bn 1 million Direct jobs due to exports 1.4 million Service exports €105 bn Re-exports €34 bn Chapter 2 Dutch export earnings Chapter 3 Dutch international traders Chapter 4 Internationally traded goods and services Total revenue €262 bn (2018) Total 2.4 million full-time jobs (2018) Exporters: Importers: 30% of all enterprises 30% of SMEs 84% of large enterprises 83% of multinationals 12% of all enterprises 11% of SMEs 68% of large enterprises 69% of multinationals Exports Imports Chemicals (17%) Mineral fuels (13%) Mineral fuels (16%) Exports Imports Business services (30%) Intellectual property (25%) Transport services (16%) Business services (33%) Transport services (13%) Intellectual property (27%) International trade in goods (2019) International trade in goods (2019) International trade in services (2019) International trade in services (2019)
Chapter 5 Main trading partners in goods trade Chapter 6 Importers of Dutch intermediate goods Chapter 7 International investments Source: DNB Main export destinations, 2019 Large Dutch share in 2018 imports of Germany Belgium France 22% 10% 8% Belgium Nigeria Aruba 18% 11% 11% Germany Belgium China 17% 10% 9% Iceland Mozambique Belgium 30% 21% 12% Top 5 fastest-growing major destinations (% growth, 2015–2016) Top 5 markets (% share, 2016) Germany US Russia UK UK France Spain Sweden Turkey China 14% 14% 12% 8% 8% 15% 11% 10% 5% 5% Top 5 inward FDI (excluding SPEs) up to 2018 inclusive Top 5 outward FDI counterparts (excl. SPEs) up to 2018 inclusive United Kingdom Luxembourg United States Switzerland Germany United States Switzerland United Kingdom Germany Luxembourg
Download PDF

Facts that matter

©CBS, 2020

Colophon

This web publication was developed by Statistics Netherlands (CBS) in cooperation with Textcetera The Hague.
If you have a question or comment about this publication, please contact us.

Disclaimer and copyright

Cookies

On this website, CBS uses functional cookies on this website to allow proper functioning of the site. These cookies do not contain personal user data and have minimal or no consequences for your privacy. In addition, CBS uses analytical cookies to track visitor statistics, including the number of page views, which topics users are searching, and how visitors reach our website. The purpose is to gain insight into the functioning of the website in order to improve your user experience. We minimise traceability of visitors to our website as much as possible by anonymising the final octet (group of eight bits) of each IP address. These data are not shared with other parties. CBS does not use tracking cookies. Tracking cookies are cookies that track visitors during their browsing of other websites.

The functional and analytical cookies have minimal or no consequences for your privacy. In accordance with current regulations, these cookies may be placed without prior consent.

More information (in Dutch only): https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/telecommunicatie/vraag-en-antwoord/mag-een-website-ongevraagd-cookies-plaatsen

Explanation of symbols

. Data not available
* Provisional figure
** Revised provisional figure
x Publication prohibited (confidential figure)
– Nil
– (Between two figures) inclusive
0 (0.0) Less than half of unit concerned
empty cell Not applicable
2019–2020 2018 to 2019 inclusive
2019/2020 Average for 2018 to 2019 inclusive
2019/’20 Crop year, financial year, school year, etc., beginning in 2019 and ending in 2020
2017/’18–2019/’20 Crop year, financial year, school year, etc., 2017/’18 to 2019/’20 inclusive

Due to rounding, some totals may not correspond to the sum of the separate figures.

About CBS

CBS responds to developments in Dutch society by providing statistical information as facts that matter, and communicates on these facts with the outside world. In doing so, CBS offers insights into current developments in society and helps answer policy questions. Research at CBS is focused on broad trends in society and how these are interrelated.

CBS has offices in The Hague, Heerlen and Bonaire with altogether approximately 2,000 staff. A society-oriented working attitude is essential to CBS. CBS provides figures which are relevant to society. Every year, CBS publishes around 600 statistical studies. Virtually every day, CBS data and figures are communicated to the outside world via news releases, video messages and through social media. This results in some 50,000 articles per year in daily newspapers and on news sites.

For more information on CBS’s tasks, organisation and publications, go to cbs.nl/en-gb.

Contact

Should you have any questions or need more information, please contact us.

Contributors

Authors

Nieke Aerts

Marcel van den Berg

Sarah Creemers

Hans Draper

Loe Franssen

Marjolijn Jaarsma

Alex Lammertsma

Tom Notten

Tim Peeters

Leen Prenen

Janneke Rooyakkers

Khee Fung Wong

Editorial team

Sarah Creemers

Marjolijn Jaarsma

Alex Lammertsma

Editors in chief

Marjolijn Jaarsma

Alex Lammertsma

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following colleagues for their constructive contributions to this edition of Dutch Trade in Facts and Figures:

Deirdre Bosch

Linda Bruls

Elijah Cats

Richard Jollie

Bart Loog

Pascal Ramaekers

Carla Sebo-Ros

Roos Smit

Sandra Vasconcellos

Gabriëlle de Vet

Roger Voncken

Hans Westerbeek

Hendrik Zuidhoek

We would also like to thank the following members of staff at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for their feedback on a forerunner of Dutch Trade in Facts and Figures:

Tom Beerling

Laurens den Hartog

Harry Oldersma