Netherlands's fuel imports (% of merchandise imports) was 13.34% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 0.9 percentage points from 14.24% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 13.34% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 9.53% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 14.24% | 2015 |
| Highest | 26.28% | 1981 |
| Lowest | 6.69% | 1998 |
| Average since 2016 | 14.62% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 25.79% | 1962 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Netherlands' fuel imports (% of merchandise imports) fell 3.11 percentage points on 2024 (from 16.45% to 13.34%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.28 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 2.63 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.3 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 6.46 percentage points in 2022 and the biggest yearly fall was 13.37 percentage points in 1963. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 14% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2025, Netherlands had the 45th highest value of the 103 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 13.34% | 2025 |
| World | 11.24% | 2025 |
| Europe & Central Asia | 9.14% | 2025 |
| High income | 9.43% | 2025 |
Closest to Netherlands in the 2025 ranking
- Belize — 42nd of 103: 13.78%
- Bulgaria — 43rd of 103: 13.52%
- El Salvador — 44th of 103: 13.46%
- Faroe Islands — 46th of 103: 13.13%
- Guyana — 47th of 103: 13%
- Philippines — 48th of 103: 12.7%
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 imports which is comprised of goods whose economic ownership is changed between a non-resident and a 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 64 values
| Year | Fuel imports (% of merchandise imports) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 13.34 |
| 2024 | 16.45 |
| 2023 | 18.88 |
| 2022 | 19.14 |
| 2021 | 12.69 |
| 2020 | 9.53 |
| 2019 | 14.28 |
| 2018 | 15.24 |
| 2017 | 14.05 |
| 2016 | 12.64 |
| 2015 |
Fuel imports (% of merchandise imports) in nearby economies
More private sector & trade data for Netherlands
- Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 139.54% (2025)
- Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$870.44 billion (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$989.24 billion (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports (% of merchandise imports) — 1.36% (2025)
- Food imports (% of merchandise imports) — 14.45% (2025)
- Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) — 65.39% (2025)
- Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports) — 2.61% (2025)
- Merchandise imports from economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise imports) — 2.6% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Netherlands's fuel imports (% of merchandise imports)?
- 13.34% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1962?
- It is down 12.45 percentage points from 25.79% in 1962. The highest value was 26.28% in 1981 and the lowest 6.69% in 1998.
- How does Netherlands rank?
- 45th highest of 103 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in fuel imports (% of merchandise imports) unusual for Netherlands?
- In 2025, Netherlands' fuel imports (% of merchandise imports) fell 3.11 percentage points on 2024 (from 16.45% to 13.34%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.28 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 2.63 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.3 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator TM.VAL.FUEL.ZS.UN, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Comtrade database, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Statistics Division; World Integrated Trade Solution system (WITS); Staff estimates, 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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