Exports in Russia decreased to 31527 USD Million in August from 38027 USD Million in July of 2025. This dataset provides - Russia Exports - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Russia's total Exports in 2021 were valued at US$492.31 Billion, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade. Russia's main export partners were: China, the Netherlands and Germany. The top three export commodities were: Mineral fuels, oils, distillation products; Pearls, precious stones, metals, coins and Iron and steel. Total Imports were valued at US$293.50 Billion. In 2021, Russia had a trade surplus of US$198.82 Billion.

Key information about Russia Total Exports

• Russia Total Exports recorded 38.6 USD bn in Sep 2025, compared with 31.6 USD bn in the previous month
• Russia Total Exports data is updated monthly, available from Jan 1998 to Sep 2025, with an averaged value of 41.5 USD bn
• The data reached an all-time high of 57.2 USD bn in Dec 2021 and a record low of 4.4 USD bn in Jan 1999

• In the latest reports, Russia Total Exports dropped 0.7 % YoY in Sep 2025
• Total Imports recorded 23.2 USD bn in Sep 2025, which registered a decrease of 7.5 % year on year
• Russia Trade Balance recorded a surplus of 15.4 USD bn in Sep 2025

In 2024, about ****** billion U.S. dollars worth of goods were exported from Russia. The export value decreased by around **** percent from the previous year.

Transportation equipment was the main export commodity of the U.S. to Russia in the first 11 months of 2024, at roughly 2.5 billion U.S. dollars. Furthermore, the value of telecommunications equipment shipped from the U.S. to Russia were close to one billion U.S. dollars. The U.S. trade sanctions imposed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine have led to a decline in exports of various commodities, such as equipment and machinery.

Key information about Russia Total Exports to USA

• Russia Total Exports to USA recorded 968.400 USD mn in Jan 2022, compared with 1.659 USD bn in the previous Dec 2021
• Russia Total Exports to USA data is updated monthly, available from Mar 2004 to Jan 2022, with an averaged value of 689.900 USD mn
• The data reached an all-time high of 2.108 USD bn in Jul 2021 and a record low of 408.500 USD mn in Apr 2004

Russia's leading five export partners in 2023 were China, India, Turkey, Kazakhstan, and Brazil. The value of total exports from Russia to its major trade partner — China — exceeded *** billion U.S. dollars. Trade between Russia and China China was not only the leading export destination of Russian commodities, but also the major import partner of the country. Prior to 2018, the value of Russian imports from China prevailed the Russian exports’ worth to the country. It was in 2018 when for the first time, the trade balance of Russia with China turned positive and amounted to about *** billion U.S. dollars. Russia's primary export goods, mineral and energy products, were also the most imported commodities by China from the country. Russian trade with Europe Trade flows between Russia and the EU have been in decline over the past years. In 2023, the EU export value to Russia exceeded ** billion U.S. dollars — roughly ** billion U.S. dollars below the EU imports’ worth from Russia in that year. Germany was the major importer of Russian goods in the region.

This graph shows the growth in the U.S. import volume of trade goods from Russia from 1992 to 2023. In 2023, U.S. imports from Russia amounted to approximately 4.57 billion U.S. dollars. RussiaRussia's foreign trade balance of goods generated a surplus of about 187 billion U.S. dollars, with more resulting from exports than imports in 2014. Russia exported trade goods valued about 418.8 billion U.S. dollars in 2019. In a global ranking of national exports, Russia was sixteenth. Leading exporters like China, the United States, and Germany are exporting goods worth between 1.5 and 2.5 trillion U.S. dollars. The placement of Russia’s export ranking is linear with its placement on the ranking of the biggest economies in the world. Russia had the eleventh largest GDP worldwide with about 1.6 trillion U.S. dollars in 2019. Russia's most important export countries are mostly its direct neighbors, like China, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, and Kazakhstan. About 35 percent of all exports go to neighboring countries. China is the most important country within the aforementioned nations, which takes about 8 percent of Russia's exported goods. The United States are not among the top ten. The nation sits in twelfth place of Russia's export destinations, with about three percent. The products exported from Russia are unsurprisingly mainly mineral products and metals, with crude and refined petroleum making up for 54 percent of all exports. The main export product apart from resources is wheat. Exported wheat from Russia was valued at about 6.2 billion U.S. dollars in 2012. Russia is one of the principal wheat exporters. Although the development of Russia's exports has been somewhat positive in recent years, the political crisis with the Ukraine, resulting in economic sanctions applied by important trade countries like Germany, the EU, the United States and many others, might have dampened foreign trade altogether. The result was a negative growth in exports of about five percent in 2014.

This graph shows the growth in the U.S. export volume of trade goods to Russia from 1992 to 2023. In 2023, U.S. exports to Russia amounted to about 600 million U.S. dollars. RussiaRussia is the largest country in the world, with a combined land and water area of about 17 million square kilometers between their borders. It covers more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area. It is larger than Antarctica (14 million square kilometers) and larger than all of Europe (10.5 million square kilometers). In comparison to the country’s huge land mass, the population of Russia is rather minute; with a population of only about 144 million, which comes down to a population density of 8.4 inhabitants per square kilometer. Population density in the United States, which is the fourth largest country in the world, has about 33 inhabitants per sqkm. The Russian population is relatively concentrated around the big metropolitan areas of the country. About 75 percent of Russians live in an urban area. Moscow, the capital of Russia, has about 12 million inhabitants. The greater Moscow metropolitan area has about 16 million inhabitants and is the fifteenth largest metro area in the world. Most of the Russian population lives in the part of the country that is part of the European continent. About 74 percent of all Russians live west of the Ural on an area that encompasses only 23 percent of Russia's total land area.

Minerals products were the major export commodity group from Russia. Their export value amounted to ***** billion U.S. dollars in 2024. Metals and articles thereof followed, with goods worth **** billion U.S. dollars exported from Russia in 2024.

Russia was forecast to export ***** million metric tons of cereals in the crop year 2025/26. That would be above the volume of Russia's cereal exports recorded in the previous period. What cereals does Russia export? Wheat is the main cereal exported from Russia. The country was predicted to trade over ** million metric tons of wheat to other countries in 2032, being the largest exporter of that commodity worldwide. Among other cereals, which are grasses cultivated for edible components of their grains, Russia exported barley, rye, corn, and rice. COVID-19 restrictions on cereal exports in Russia Limits to exports of certain foods from Russia as a food security measure during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic were imposed by the country on its own as well as within the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), together with Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. The EAEU restrictions included cereals like rye, rice, and millet. The Russian government introduced an export quota of seven million metric tons of wheat, rye, barley, and corn between April 1 and June 30, 2020, with an exception to exports to the EAEU.

Key information about Russia Natural Gas: Exports

• Russia Natural Gas: Exports was reported at 158,970.350 Cub m mn in Dec 2024
• This records an increase from the previous number of 137,130.000 Cub m mn for Dec 2023
• Russia Natural Gas: Exports data is updated yearly, averaging 87,719.968 Cub m mn from Dec 1960 to 2024, with 65 observations
• The data reached an all-time high of 258,240.000 Cub m mn in 2019 and a record low of 212.440 Cub m mn in 1960
• Russia Natural Gas: Exports data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
• The data is categorized under World Trend Plus’s Association: Energy Sector – Table RB.OPEC.NG: Natural Gas Exports

In 2021, mineral fuels were the most exported commodities from Russia to the United States with roughly ************ U.S. dollars in exports of named product category. Precious and semi-precious stones and metals listed in second place by export value over the period under consideration. Russia also exported over *** billion U.S. dollar worth of iron and steel to the U.S. in 2021.

Key information about Russia Total Exports to China

• Russia Total Exports to China recorded 5.805 USD bn in Jan 2022, compared with 6.394 USD bn in the previous month
• Russia Total Exports to China data is updated monthly, available from Mar 2004 to Jan 2022, with an averaged value of 2.907 USD bn
• The data reached an all-time high of 6.643 USD bn in Nov 2021 and a record low of 634.500 USD mn in Jan 2005

The share of exports in the gross domestic product (GDP) in Russia stood at 23.08 percent in 2023. Between 1989 and 2023, the share rose by 1.18 percentage points, though the increase followed an uneven trajectory rather than a consistent upward trend.

In 2023, based on preliminary figures, Germany exported goods to Russia valued at a total of 8.91 billion euros. This corresponds to a decrease of around 39 percent (in the previous year, the decline was already over 45 percent). The main reason for this sharp decline is the sanctions imposed on Russia by the EU and many countries around the world following the Russian attack on Ukraine in February 2022.

United States Exports to Russia was US$526.07 Million during 2024, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade. United States Exports to Russia - data, historical chart and statistics - was last updated on October of 2025.

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Iran Exports: Russia data was reported at 751.406 USD mn in 2023. This records an increase from the previous number of 578.591 USD mn for 2022. Iran Exports: Russia data is updated yearly, averaging 284.784 USD mn from Mar 1995 (Median) to 2023, with 28 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 751.406 USD mn in 2023 and a record low of 36.300 USD mn in 1999. Iran Exports: Russia data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Iran – Table IR.JA005: Exports: by Country.

China has been the leading export destination of fossil fuels from Russia since the start of the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Since that date, Russia has exported fossil fuels, such as oil, natural gas, and coal, worth around *** billion euros to China as of January 27, 2025. India was the second-leading recipient country, with a total fossil fuel export value of approximately ***** billion euros.