Economy - major importing countries (2008 rankings)

rank country 2006  x 1 bln US$ 2007  x 1 bln US$ 2008  x 1 bln US$ change 2007-2008
1 United States 1,919.4 2,020.4 2,169.5 7.4%
2 Germany 908.6 1,058.6 1,203.8 13.7%
3 China 791.5 956.0 1,132.5 18.5%
4 Japan 579.6 621.1 762.6 22.8%
5 France 534.9 615.2 705.6 14.7%
6 United Kingdom 619.4 619.6 632.0 2.0%
7 Netherlands 416.4 491.6 573.2 16.6%
8 Italy 437.4 504.5 554.9 10.0%
9 Belgium 353.7 413.2 469.5 13.6%
10 Korea, Republic of 309.4 356.8 435.3 22.0%
11 Canada 357.7 389.6 418.3 7.4%
12 Spain 316.4 372.6 401.4 7.7%
13 China - Hong Kong SAR 335.8 370.1 393.0 6.2%
14 Mexico 268.2 296.3 323.2 9.1%
15 Singapore 238.7 263.2 319.8 21.5%
16 India 174.8 216.6 293.4 35.5%
17 Russian Federation 163.9 223.4 291.9 30.7%
18 Taiwan 203.0 219.6 240.4 9.5%
19 Poland 126.0 162.7 204.3 25.6%
20 Turkey 138.3 170.1 202.0 18.8%
21 Australia 139.3 165.3 200.3 21.2%
22 Austria 140.3 162.4 183.4 12.9%
23 Switzerland 141.4 161.2 183.2 13.6%
24 Brazil 95.9 126.6 182.4 44.1%
25 Thailand 128.6 140.8 178.7 26.9%
26 Sweden 126.7 151.3 167.2 10.5%
27 United Arab Emirates 97.8 132.0 165.6 25.5%
28 Malaysia 131.2 147.0 156.9 6.7%
29 Czech Republic 93.2 117.9 141.5 20.0%
30 Indonesia 80.3 92.4 126.2 36.6%
31 Saudi Arabia 66.3 90.2 115.1 27.6%
32 Denmark 86.3 99.6 110.8 11.2%
33 Hungary 77.0 95.0 107.9 13.6%
34 South Africa 77.3 91.0 99.5 9.3%
35 Finland 68.9 81.5 91.8 12.6%
36 Portugal 66.6 78.1 90.0 15.2%
37 Norway 64.1 80.3 89.3 11.2%
38 Ukraine 45.0 60.7 85.5 40.9%
39 Ireland 72.8 82.5 83.2 0.8%
40 Romania 51.1 69.9 82.7 18.3%
41 Viet Nam 44.4 60.8 80.4 32.2%
42 Greece 63.2 76.1 79.0 3.8%
43 Slovak Republic 45.9 60.2 73.4 21.9%
44 Israel 50.0 59.0 67.7 14.7%
45 Chile 38.4 47.1 61.9 31.4%
46 Philippines 51.5 58.0 60.3 4.0%
47 Argentina 34.2 44.8 57.4 28.1%
48 Iran 51.1 46.0 57.4 24.8%
49 Venezuela 33.6 46.1 49.6 7.6%
50 Egypt - - 47.5 -
51 Colombia - 32.9 - -
52 Pakistan 29.8 - - -
  Total top 50 11,485.1 13,097.7 15,002.2 14.5%
  Total World 12,413.0 14,244.0 16,422.0 15.3%
source: World Trade Organisation.
note: 1 bln = 1,000,000,000.
note: Data on imports 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.