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by Flagpictures.orgQatar shipped US$84.9 billion worth of exported products around the world in 2025.
That projected dollar amount reflects a -2.7% drop compared to $87.2 billion five years earlier in 2021.
Year over year, the overall value of Qatar’s exported products shrank by -10.7% starting from $95 billion for 2024.
Located on the Arabian Peninsula’s northeast coast, the State of Qatar borders with Saudi Arabia while sharing sea borders on the Persian Gulf with the United Arab Emirates and Iran.
Qatar’s Major Trading Partners
The latest available country-specific data from 2024 shows that 84.4% of products exported from Qatar was bought by importers in: mainland China (19.9% of the Qatari total), South Korea (13.5%), India (11.7%), Japan (7.1%), Singapore (7%), United Arab Emirates (6.3%), Taiwan (4.2%), Pakistan (3.9%), Thailand (3.2%), Italy (2.9%), Kuwait (2.4%) and Bangladesh (2.3%).
From a continental perspective, 88.5% of Qatar’s exports by value was delivered to Asian countries while 8.6% was sold to importers in Europe.
Qatar shipped another 1.7% worth of goods to buyers in North America.
Smaller percentages went to customers based in Africa (0.9%), Oceania (0.24%) led by Australia and New Zealand, then Latin America (0.06%) excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean.
Given Qatar’s population over 3.1 million people, its total US$84.9 billion in 2025 exports translates to roughly $27,300 for every resident in the Middle Eastern country. That dollar metric lags the average $28,700 per capita one year earlier during 2024.
The following export product groups represent the highest dollar value in Qatari global shipments during 2025. Also shown is the percentage share each export category represents in terms of overall exports from Qatar.
- Mineral fuels including oil: US$72.2 billion (85.1% of total exports)
- Fertilizers: $2 billion (2.4%)
- Aluminum: $1.98 billion (2.3%)
- Plastics, plastic articles: $1.93 billion (2.3%)
- Inorganic chemicals: $1.4 billion (1.6%)
- Organic chemicals: $926.5 million (1.1%)
- Salt, sulphur, stone, cement: $897.3 million (1.1%)
- Gems, precious metals: $560.9 million (0.7%)
- Ships, boats: $283.7 million (0.3%)
- Iron, steel: $240.3 million (0.3%)
Qatar’s top 10 exports accounted for 97.2% of the overall value of global Qatari shipments.
Salt, sulphur, stone and cement represents the fastest grower among the top 10 export categories, up by 174.9% from 2024 to 2025.
In second place for improving export sales was gems and precious metals via a 109% advance led by jewelry.
Qatar’s shipments of fertilizers posted the third-fastest gain in value, up by 8.7%.
The leading decliner among Qatar’s top 10 export categories was ships and boats, thanks to a -73.3% year-over-year drop.
At the more granular four-digit Harmonized Tariff System code level, petroleum gases were Qatar’s most valuable exported product worth 49.9% of the country’s total. In second place was crude oil (20.7%) trailed by refined petroleum oils (14.3%), nitrogenous fertilizers (2.3%), unwrought aluminum (also 2.3%), ethylene polymers (2.2%), hydrogen and rare gases (1.3%), non-sublimed sulphur (1.1%), jewelry (0.6%) then acyclic hydrocarbons (0.4%).
Qatar’s trio of largest exports by value–petroleum gases, crude oil and refined petroleum oils–reveal a highly concentrated portfolio of exported goods. Combined, the top 3 most valuable accounted for 84.9% of the Middle Eastern country’s overall export sales during 2025.
Products Resulting in Qatar’s Largest Trade Surpluses
Qatar posted an estimated US$43.2 billion trade surplus during 2025, falling by -27% from $59.2 billion in black ink one year earlier for 2024.
The following types of Qatari 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.
- Mineral fuels including oil: US$71.7 billion (Down by -7.4% since 2024)
- Fertilizers: $2 billion (Up by 8.8%)
- Aluminum: $1.86 billion (Up by 8%)
- Plastics, plastic articles: $1.33 billion (Down by -33.6%)
- Salt, sulphur, stone, cement: $785.5 million (Up by 622.8%)
- Organic chemicals: $776.6 million (Down by -13.8%)
- Inorganic chemicals: $731.7 million (Down by -33.4%)
- Copper: $113 million (Reversing a -$307 million deficit)
- Lead: $5.4 million (Down by -60%)
Qatar has highly positive net exports in the international trade of mineral fuels-related goods, historically petroleum gases and both crude and refined petroleum oils. In turn, these cashflows indicate Qatar’s strong competitive advantages under the mineral fuels including oil product category.
Products Causing Qatar’s Worst Trade Deficits
Below are exports from Qatar that result in negative net exports or product trade balance deficits. These negative net exports reveal product categories where foreign spending on home country Qatar’s goods trail Qatari importer spending on foreign products.
- Gems, precious metals: -US$8.3 billion (Up by 622.4% since 2024)
- Machinery including computers: -$6.7 billion (Up by 2.9%)
- Vehicles: -$4.2 billion (Up by 94.6%)
- Aircraft, spacecraft: -$4.1 billion (Up by 582%)
- Electrical machinery, equipment: -$2.1 billion (Down by -18.3%)
- Articles of iron or steel: -$1.5 billion (Up by 0.8%)
- Ships, boats: -$848.5 million (Reversing an $805.7 million surplus)
- Optical, technical, medical apparatus: -$806.3 million (Up by 20.2%)
- Pharmaceuticals: -$615.5 million (Down by -45.5%)
- Furniture, bedding, lighting, signs, prefab buildings: -$593.4 million (Up by 8%)
Qatar has highly negative net exports and therefore deep international trade deficits for products under the gems and precious metals category, notably for gold and jewelry.
Qatari Export Companies
Eight Qatari corporations rank among Forbes Global 2000 albeit many of these are in the financial services. Below are selected samples from the Forbes listing.
- Qatar National Bank (regional bank)
- Ooredoo Telecom (telecommunications services)
- Industries Qatar (specialized chemicals)
Wikipedia lists exports-related companies from Qatar. Selected examples are shown below.
- Qatar National Cement Company (cement manufacturing)
- Qatar Petroleum (oil, gas)
- Qatar Steel (steel, other basic materials)
- Qatargas (natural gas)
- RasGas (natural gas)
In macroeconomic terms, Qatar’s total exported goods represent 22.4% of its overall Gross Domestic Product for 2025 ($378.1 billion valued in Purchasing Power Parity US dollars). That 22.4% for exports to overall GDP in PPP for 2025 compares to an average 24.7% for 2024. Those percentages suggest a relatively decreasing reliance on products sold on international markets for Qatar’s total economic performance, albeit based on a relatively short timeframe.
Another key indicator of a country’s economic performance is its unemployment rate. Qatar’s unemployment rate was 0.1% at December 2025, same as an average 0.1% one year prior according to Trading Economics statistics.
Qatar’s capital city is Doha.
See also World’s Richest Export Countries, Japan’s Top Trading Partners, India’s Top Trading Partners and South Korea’s Top Trading Partners
Research Sources:
Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook Country Profiles. Accessed on September 19, 2026
Forbes 2021 Global 2000 rankings, The World’s Biggest Public Companies. Accessed on September 19, 2026
International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook Database (GDP based on Purchasing Power Parity). Accessed on September 19, 2026
Investopedia, Net Exports Definition. Accessed on September 19, 2026
International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on September 19, 2026
Wikipedia, Gross domestic product. Accessed on September 19, 2026
Wikipedia, List of Companies of Qatar. Accessed on September 19, 2026
Wikipedia, Purchasing power parity. Accessed on September 19, 2026
Wikipedia, Qatar. Accessed on September 19, 2026
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