What does Belgium produce and export?

What does Belgium produce?

What does Belgium export?

Belgium's own tracked-export mix

Unlike the chart above, this treemap sizes each commodity by its share of Belgium's own $29.1 billion of tracked exports, not by world trade. Natural gas alone is 36% of it. See the full export dependency report for how Belgium compares with other countries.

Top-ten importer of

• Potatoes: #1, 13% of world imports, $941.4 million (2024)
• Tobacco: #1, 14% of world imports, $1.9 billion (2024)
• Linseed: #2, 22% of world imports, $276.6 million (2024)
• Canola: #3, 10% of world imports, $1.3 billion (2024)
• Plantains: #3, 4.2% of world imports, $47 million (2024)
• Barley: #4, 5% of world imports, $456.1 million (2024)
• Cocoa: #4, 7.2% of world imports, $1.4 billion (2024)
• Coffee: #4, 7.3% of world imports, $2.5 billion (2024)
• Pineapples: #4, 5.1% of world imports, $143.1 million (2024)
• Titanium: #4, 7.3% of world imports, $233.5 million (2024)
• Oats: #5, 4.8% of world imports, $53.3 million (2024)
• Phosphate rock: #5, 4.4% of world imports, $228.9 million (2024)
• Cheese: #6, 4.6% of world imports, $2.1 billion (2024)
• Cobalt: #6, 2.1% of world imports, $97.3 million (2024)
• Lithium: #6, 2% of world imports, $78.1 million (2024)
• Eggs: #7, 3.6% of world imports, $209.5 million (2024)
• Honey: #7, 3% of world imports, $70.2 million (2024)
• Iridium: #7, 5.2% of world imports, $118.9 million (2024)
• Molybdenum: #7, 6.6% of world imports, $534.8 million (2024)
• Potash: #7, 2% of world imports, $408.4 million (2024)
• Sunflower oil: #7, 4.1% of world imports, $775.8 million (2024)
• Zinc: #7, 3.9% of world imports, $565.7 million (2024)
• Cashews: #8, 0.2% of world imports, $7.1 million (2024)
• Lamb: #8, 3.4% of world imports, $304.6 million (2024)
• Bananas: #9, 3.6% of world imports, $562.7 million (2024)
• Bismuth: #9, 2.2% of world imports, $1.1 million (2024)
• Palm kernel oil: #9, 2.3% of world imports, $25.3 million (2024)
• Pistachios: #9, 2.7% of world imports, $93.4 million (2024)
• Tin: #9, 3.5% of world imports, $228.4 million (2024)
• Natural gas: #10, 3.2% of world imports, $15.3 billion (2024)
• Quinoa: #10, 2.3% of world imports, $6.9 million (2024)

Sources: FAOSTAT (crops and livestock), USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries (minerals), Energy Institute Statistical Review (energy) for production; CEPII BACI for trade. Ranks count only the commodities on this site.

Belgium commodity by commodity

One page for each commodity where Belgium is a top-five producer or exporter with at least 3% of the world total.

• Bismuth #5 exporter
• Iridium #4 exporter
• Linseed #4 exporter
• Rhodium #4 exporter
• Steel #5 exporter
• Tobacco #5 exporter
• Zinc #5 exporter

Belgium in the pattern reports

What the cross-commodity reports under Patterns say about Belgium, computed from the same data as this page.

What Belgium uses

Belgium had about 12 million people and a food supply of 3,921 kilocalories per person a day in FAO's 2023 food balance sheets. Its eight largest supplies among the commodities tracked there:

FAOSTAT Food Balance Sheets. Per-person rank counts countries of at least 1 million people. See consumption and self-sufficiency.

Who supplies Belgium

• Single-supplier markets. Belgium buys half or more of its imports from one country in 10 of 34 import markets of $250 million or more, among them crude oil from Netherlands (98%, $23.0 billion); wheat from France (64%, $918 million); coal from Australia (53%, $802 million); sunflower oil from Netherlands (75%, $776 million); chicken from Netherlands (51%, $734 million); barley from France (80%, $456 million). Import dependency.

Downloads and citation

This country's rankings as JSON · PDF summary. Cite as: Commodity Origins, "What does Belgium produce and export?", https://commodityorigins.com/countries/BEL/ (CC BY 4.0).

Data updated 22 October 2026.

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