Economy - major exporting countries (2008 rankings)

rank country 2006  x 1 bln US$ 2007  x 1 bln US$ 2008  x 1 bln US$ change 2007-2008
1 Germany 1,112.1 1,326.4 1,461.9 10.2%
2 China 968.9 1,217.8 1,428.3 17.3%
3 United States 1,038.3 1,162.5 1,287.4 10.7%
4 Japan 649.9 712.8 782.0 9.7%
5 Netherlands 462.4 551.3 633.0 14.8%
6 France 490.4 553.4 605.4 9.4%
7 Italy 410.6 491.5 538.0 9.5%
8 Belgium 369.2 430.8 475.6 10.4%
9 Russia 304.5 355.2 471.6 32.8%
10 United Kingdom 448.3 437.8 458.6 4.8%
11 Canada 389.5 419.0 456.5 8.9%
12 South Korea 325.5 371.5 422.0 13.6%
13 China - Hong Kong SAR 322.7 349.4 370.2 6.0%
14 Singapore 271.8 299.3 338.2 13.0%
15 Saudi Arabia 209.5 234.2 313.4 33.8%
16 Mexico 250.4 272.0 291.7 7.2%
17 Spain 205.5 241.0 268.3 11.3%
18 Taiwan 223.8 246.4 255.6 3.7%
19 United Arab Emirates 139.4 173.0 231.6 33.9%
20 Switzerland 147.5 172.1 200.3 16.4%
21 Malaysia 160.7 176.2 199.5 13.2%
22 Brazil 137.5 160.6 197.9 23.2%
23 Australia 123.3 141.3 187.3 32.6%
24 Sweden 147.4 169.1 183.4 8.5%
25 Austria 140.4 162.9 181.0 11.1%
26 Thailand 130.8 153.1 177.8 16.1%
27 India 120.3 145.3 177.5 22.2%
28 Norway 121.5 136.4 172.5 26.5%
29 Poland 110.3 138.8 168.0 21.0%
30 Czech Republic 95.1 122.4 146.3 19.5%
31 Indonesia 103.5 118.0 139.3 18.1%
32 Turkey 85.5 107.2 132.0 23.1%
33 Ireland 111.1 121.0 124.1 2.6%
34 Denmark 92.8 103.5 116.8 12.9%
35 Iran 73.7 86.0 113.4 31.9%
36 Hungary 74.5 94.6 107.7 13.8%
37 Finland 77.0 89.7 96.5 7.6%
38 Venezuela 65.2 69.2 93.5 35.1%
39 Kuwait 55.7 62.4 87.1 39.6%
40 South Africa 58.4 69.8 80.8 15.8%
41 Nigeria 52.0 65.5 80.8 23.4%
42 Algeria 54.6 60.2 79.3 31.7%
43 Kazakhstan 40.5 - 71.2 -
44 Slovak Republic 41.7 58.2 71.0 22.0%
45 Argentina 46.6 55.9 70.0 25.2%
46 Angola - - 67.1 -
47 Ukraine - 49.2 67.0 36.2%
48 Chile 58.1 68.3 66.5 -2.6%
49 Qatar - - 63.8 -
50 Libya - - 63.1 -
51 Israel 46.4 54.1 - -
52 Portugal 43.3 51.5 - -
53 Philippines 47.0 50.5 - -
54 Viet Nam 39.6 48.4 - -
  Total top 50 11,294.1 13,006.4 14,871.8 14.3%
  Total World 12,083.0 13,950.0 16,070.0 15.2%
source: World Trade Organisation.
note: 1 bln = 1,000,000,000.
note: Data on exports is solely for merchandise, thus excluding services.
note: For brevity's sake names of countries above are in the short form, for official names see Countries with their official codes.