Aruban flag (Wikimedia)

A constituent country belonging to the Netherlands and located in the southern Caribbean Sea north of Venezuela, Aruba shipped US$146.6 million worth of exported products around the globe in 2025.

That calculated dollar amount results from a 65.9% increase from $88.3 million worth of exports 5 years earlier during 2021.

Year over year, the overall value of Aruban exports fell by -21% compared to $185.5 million starting from 2024.

Aruba’s 5 most valuable exports are turbo-jets, medication mixes not in dosage, miscellaneous fresh fruits, fresh or dried grapes, then avocadoes, pineapples, guavas and mangoes. Collectively, this quintet of lucrative exported products generated over one-third (33.9%) of Aruba’s overall international sales in 2025.

The latest available country-specific data from 2023 shows that 100% of products exported from Aruba were bought by importers in: Colombia (66% of the Aruban total), United States of America (22.8%), Curaçao (5.6%), Netherlands (3.6%) and Panama (2.1%).

Given Aruba’s population of some 109,00 people, its total US$146.6 million in 2025 exports translates to about $1,350 for every resident on the tourism-driven Caribbean island. That dollar metric lags the average $1,550 per capita one year earlier in 2024.

Aruba’s top 10 export product categories accounted for two-thirds (66.4%) of the overall value of its global shipments.

Pharmaceuticals represent the fastest grower among the top 10 export categories, up by 526.7% from 2024 to 2025.

In second place for improving export sales was plastics, both as materials and including items made from plastic, via a 273% advance.

Aruba’s shipments of machinery including computers posted the third-fastest gain in value, up by 244.1%.

The lone decliner among Aruba’s top 10 export categories was vegetables, thanks to a -15.2% year-over-year drop.

At the more granular four-digit Harmonized Tariff System code level, turbo-jets were Aruba’s highest-value exported product at 8.2% of the island’s total. In second place were medication mixes not in dosage (7.7%) trailed by miscellaneous fresh fruits (7.1%), fresh or dried grapes (5.8%), avocadoes, pineapples, guavas and mangoes (5.1%), fresh or dried citrus fruit (4.8%), iron or steel scrap (2.7%), lifting or loading machinery (2.2%), industrial preparation machinery (1.8%), then copper waste or scrap (1.7%).

The following types of Aruban product shipments represent positive net exports or a trade balance surplus. Investopedia defines net exports as the value of a country’s total exports minus the value of its total imports.

In a nutshell, net exports represent the amount by which foreign spending on a home country’s goods or services exceeds or lags the home country’s spending on foreign goods or services.

Aruba incurred an overall -US$1.33 billion trade deficit for 2025, increasing by 6% from -$1.25 billion in red ink one year earlier in 2024.

Below are exports from Aruba that result in negative net exports or product trade balance deficits. These negative net exports reveal product categories where foreign spending on home country Aruba’s goods trail Aruban importer spending on foreign products.

Not one Aruban corporations rank among the Forbes Global 2000 listing.

Wikipedia also lists exports-related companies from Aruba, as does the e-commerce website Alibaba. Selected examples are shown below.

 
In macroeconomic terms, Aruba’s total exported goods represent 2.7% of its overall Gross Domestic Product for 2025 ($5.524 billion valued in Purchasing Power Parity US dollars). That 2.7% for exports to overall GDP in PPP for 2025 lags the average 3.2% for 2024. Those percentages suggest a relative decreasing reliance on products sold on international markets for Aruba’s total economic performance, albeit based on a short timeframe.

Another key indicator of a country’s economic performance is its unemployment rate. Aruba’s unemployment rate averaged 4.363% in 2025 up from an average 3.859% for 2024, according to International Monetary Fund statistics.

Aruba’s capital city is Oranjestad.

See also Cuba’s Top 10 Exports, Jamaica’s Top 10 Exports and Colombia’s Top Trading Partners

Research Sources:
Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook, Central America and Caribbean: Aruba. Accessed on October 4, 2026

Forbes Global 2000 rankings, The World’s Biggest Public Companies. Accessed on October 4, 2026

International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook Database (GDP based on Purchasing Power Parity). Accessed on October 4, 2026

International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on October 4, 2026

Investopedia, Net Exports Definition. Accessed on October 4, 2026

United Nations, World Statistics Pocketbook: Aruba. Accessed on October 4, 2026

Wikipedia, Aruba. Accessed on October 4, 2026

Wikipedia, Category: Companies of Aruba by industry. Accessed on October 4, 2026

Wikipedia, Flag of Aruba. Accessed on October 4, 2026

Wikipedia, Gross domestic product. Accessed on October 4, 2026

Wikipedia, Purchasing power parity. Accessed on October 4, 2026