Exports and imports of goods, November 2024

Increase in external trade in goods

In November, the values of exports and imports were up at the annual level due to more trade with EU non-member countries. In the first eleven months, the value of exports was up by 11.3% and of imports by 19.4% over the same period in 2023.

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  • provisional data
Comparisons with November 2023

Exports (EUR 5.4 billion):
  • Value up by 5.2%.
  • The value of exports to EU Member States went down by 2.5% and to EU non-member countries up by 13.7%; without operations involving processing1, exports to this group of countries increased by 8.5% to EUR 914 million.
Imports (EUR 5.7 billion):
  • Value up by 5.9%.
  • The value of imports from EU Member States went down by 3.9% and from EU non-member countries up by 17.1%; without operations involving processing1, imports from the latter increased by 5.0% to EUR 793 million.
As in November 2023, a monthly trade deficit was recorded in external trade in goods. It amounted to EUR 0.3 billion, while the export-import ratio was 94.9%.

Compared with average monthly values of exports and imports in 2023, an increase in external trade in goods was recorded in November 2024. Exports went up by 17.9%, and imports by 19.7%.

Trade in goods with EU Member States down year-on-year

Both values of trade in goods with EU Member States went down compared to November 2023 by less than 5.0% – exports by 2.5% to EUR 2.6 billion and imports by 3.9% to EUR 2.7 billion.

External trade in the first eleven months up

Compared to the same period a year before, in the first eleven months of 2024, the value of exports grew by 11.3% and of imports by 19.4%. Imports from EU non-member countries increased the most in terms of value, namely by 43.0%.

The export-import ratio was 89.5%. Slovenia generated a deficit of EUR 6.7 billion in external trade in goods.

The tables with the latest data are available in the SiStat Database.
Monthly values of exports and imports, Slovenia
Monthly values of exports and imports, Slovenia
Exports and imports of goods, Slovenia
Nov 2024Jan–Nov 2024Nov 2024
Nov 2023
Jan–Nov 2024
Jan–Nov 2023
EUR 1,000% change
Exports5,402,91356,804,4625.211.3
  EU-272,605,59028,767,999-2.51.2
  EU non-member countries2,797,32328,036,46413.723.9
Imports5,695,73063,456,5555.919.4
  EU-272,746,80529,708,054-3.90.6
  EU non-member countries2,948,92433,748,50117.143.0
Trade balance-292,816-6,652,093--
Exports as % of imports94.989.5--
- 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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