Exports and imports of goods, October 2024

Trade in goods in the first ten months larger than in the same period last year

At the annual level and the level of the first ten months, the value of external trade in goods grew, more significantly in imports, mainly due to increased value of operations involving processing in trade with EU non-member countries.

  • 5 December 2024 at 10:30
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  • provisional data
Comparisons with the previous October

Exports (EUR 5.8 billion):

  • Value up by 17.9%.
  • Trade with EU non-member countries increased by 38.3% and with EU Member States by 1.2%. To EU non-member countries, without operations involving processing1, it amounted to EUR 917.5 million and was higher by 10.3%.

Imports (EUR 8.9 billion):

  • Value up by 81.4%.
  • From EU Member States down by 2.7% and in trade with EU non-member countries up significantly, by 193.6%, due to the high value of operations involving processing. Without operations involving processing1, the value of imports from the latter decreased by 1.0% to EUR 759.4 million.
The export-import ratio was 64.9%. Slovenia generated a deficit of EUR 3.1 billion in external trade in goods.

At the annual level exports with EU Member States up and imports down

In the observed month, both values of trade in goods with EU Member States amounted to EUR 2.7 billion. Compared to the previous October, exports increased by 1.2%, while imports decreased by 2.7%.

Slovenia's most important trading partners in external trade in goods with EU Member States were Germany and Italy.

External trade in goods up at the level of the first tenth months

From January to October, exports amounted to EUR 51.3 billion or 11.7% more than in the same period of last year and imports to EUR 57.6 billion or 20.6% more. Exports and imports from EU non-member countries increased the most in terms of value, namely by 25.1% and 46.1%, respectively.

External trade deficit amounted to EUR 6.3 billion in the observed period, while the export-import ratio was 89.1%.

The tables with the latest data are available in the SiStat Database.
Exports and imports of goods by groups of countries, Slovenia
Exports and imports of goods by groups of countries, Slovenia
Exports and imports of goods, Slovenia
Oct 2024Jan–Oct 2024Oct 2024
Oct 2023
Jan–Oct 2024
Jan–Oct 2023
EUR 1,000% change
Exports5,773,39251,296,87617.911.7
  EU-272,725,31526,061,1061.21.2
  EU non-member countries3,048,07725,235,76938.325.1
Imports8,891,67957,565,34181.420.6
  EU-272,723,48426,767,642-2.70.4
  EU non-member countries6,168,19530,797,699193.646.1
Trade balance-3,118,286-6,268,466--
Exports as % of imports64.989.1--
- no occurence of event, not applicable
METHODOLOGICAL NOTE
1 Operations involving processing include modification, making, composition, improvement and renovation with the aim to produce new or significantly improved products.

Monthly data for 2024 are provisional. With each release the data can be corrected and completed with new data. Final data for 2024 will be published in June 2025.

Additional explanations are provided in the methodological explanations.
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