Israel: Fuel exports (% of merchandise exports)

Key figures

What the numbers say

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 0.85 percentage points in 1963 and the biggest yearly fall was 2.33 percentage points in 1966. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2013 to 2022 the straight-line trend is upward, about 0.41 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 70% of the movement over 8 observed years.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

How it compares

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Closest to Israel in the 2022 ranking

• Rwanda — 2nd of 5: 0.06%
• French Polynesia — 3rd of 5: 0.03%
• São Tomé and Principe — 4th of 5: 0.00915%

What this measures

Fuels comprise the commodities in SITC (Rev. 3) section 3 (mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials). This indicator is expressed as a percentage of merchandise exports which is comprised of goods whose economic ownership is changed between a resident and a non-resident and that are not included in the following specific categories: goods under merchanting, non-monetary gold, and parts of travel, construction, and government goods and services n.i.e.

Limitations: Previous editions contained data based on the SITC revision 1. Data for earlier years in previous editions may differ because of the change in methodology. Concordance tables are available to convert data reported in one system to another.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.

All 59 values

Fuel exports (% of merchandise exports) in nearby economies

• Afghanistan — 8.05% (2019)
• Algeria — 93.14% (2024)
• Bahrain — 0.000372% (2024)
• Egypt, Arab Rep. — 9.79% (2025)
• Iran, Islamic Rep. — 68.03% (2023)
• Iraq — 99.03% (2024)
• Jordan — 0.26% (2024)
• Kuwait — 93.04% (2025)
• Lebanon — 7.71% (2024)
• Libya — 94.41% (2019)
• Malta

More private sector & trade data for Israel

• Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 25.29% (2025)
• Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$95.48 billion (2025)
• Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$59.01 billion (2025)
• Agricultural raw materials imports (% of merchandise imports) — 0.74% (2025)
• Food imports (% of merchandise imports) — 11.31% (2025)
• Fuel imports (% of merchandise imports) — 8.28% (2025)
• Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) — 75.15% (2025)
• Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports) — 1.6% (2025)
• Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) — 73.85% (2023)

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Questions people ask

What is Israel's fuel exports (% of merchandise exports)?

5.32% in 2022, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1962?

It is up 3.97 percentage points from 1.35% in 1962. The highest value was 5.32% in 2022 and the lowest 0.00489% in 1982.

Where does this data come from?

The World Bank's World Development Indicators, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Staff estimates, World Bank (WB); Comtrade database, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Statistics Division; World Integrated Trade Solution system (WITS), World Bank (WB).

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator TX.VAL.FUEL.ZS.UN, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Staff estimates, World Bank (WB); Comtrade database, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Statistics Division; World Integrated Trade Solution system (WITS), World Bank (WB) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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