Trade in goods by enterprise characteristics by activity sectors — Importing/exporting enterprises by country
This dataset (TEC 09) presents a breakdown by economic activity at group- (3-digit) level of International Standard Industrial Classification, Revision 4 (ISIC Rev.4): ISIC Rev. 4.International trade statistics are among the most widely available and consulted data, and offer a picture of trade flows between...
What the numbers show
Trade in goods by enterprise characteristics by activity sectors — Importing/exporting enterprises is currently reported for 22 countries. The highest value is 873,381 Enterprises in Germany; the lowest is 4,360 Enterprises in Malta.
The median across all reporting countries is 105,820 Enterprises, and the mean is 178,442 Enterprises.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 200.
Trade in goods by enterprise characteristics by activity sectors: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Germany | 873,381 Enterprises | 2024 | up 45.7% | rising |
| 2 | Italy | 680,372 Enterprises | 2024 | up 1,355.5% | volatile |
| 3 | Spain | 432,139 Enterprises | 2024 | up 261.9% | rising |
| 4 | Belgium | 376,639 Enterprises | 2024 | up 26.3% | rising |
| 5 | Switzerland | 216,235 Enterprises | 2024 | up 20.8% | rising |
| 6 | Portugal | 210,352 Enterprises | 2024 | up 60.4% | rising |
| 7 | France | 188,727 Enterprises | 2024 | up 6,224.6% | volatile |
| 8 | Austria | 174,044 Enterprises | 2024 | up 10.8% | rising |
| 9 | Sweden | 150,639 Enterprises | 2024 | up 8,931.1% | volatile |
| 10 | Romania | 139,737 Enterprises | 2024 | up 84.7% | rising |
| 11 | Hungary | 120,710 Enterprises | 2024 | up 88.1% | rising |
| 12 | Finland | 90,931 Enterprises | 2024 | up 5,593.9% | volatile |
| 13 | Denmark | 62,378 Enterprises | 2024 | up 48,632.8% | volatile |
| 14 | Ireland | 44,784 Enterprises | 2024 | up 3,724.4% | volatile |
| 15 | Greece | 37,133 Enterprises | 2024 | up 1,474.1% | volatile |
| 16 | Czechia | 32,527 Enterprises | 2024 | up 12.6% | rising |
| 17 | Serbia | 29,023 Enterprises | 2024 | up 26.3% | rising |
| 18 | Bulgaria | 22,310 Enterprises | 2024 | up 4,265.9% | volatile |
| 19 | Cyprus | 21,792 Enterprises | 2024 | up 17,059.1% | volatile |
| 20 | North Macedonia | 10,705 Enterprises | 2023 | — | flat |
| 21 | Luxembourg | 6,809 Enterprises | 2024 | up 9.8% | rising |
| 22 | Malta | 4,360 Enterprises | 2024 | up 4,216.8% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Netherlands 428,337 Enterprises
- Korea 228,889 Enterprises
- Poland 299,034 Enterprises
- Slovak Republic 113,563 Enterprises
- Slovenia 51,932 Enterprises
- Croatia 18,328 Enterprises
- Lithuania 36,243 Enterprises
- Estonia 33,797 Enterprises
- Latvia 33,020 Enterprises
About this data
This dataset (TEC 09) presents a breakdown by economic activity at group- (3-digit) level of International Standard Industrial Classification, Revision 4 (ISIC Rev.4): ISIC Rev. 4.International trade statistics are among the most widely available and consulted data, and offer a picture of trade flows between countries, broken down by types of goods and services. However, such conventional international trade statistics do not offer insights into the actors who are actually engaged in cross-border trade.The Trade by Enterprise Characteristics (TEC) database aims to fill this gap, and contains international annual trade in goods data broken down by different categories of enterprises. The data provide a solid basis for policy analyses that explore which types of firms are responsible for international trade in goods. It answers questions like who are the firms that are engaged in foreign markets, and what are their characteristics. Both the export and import values and the number of exporting and importing enterprises are available for 26 OECD and 8 non-OECD countries: including 27 EU member states plus Canada, Costa Rica, Norway, Israel, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. Data for the United Kingdom haven't been updated since reference year 2018, for Korea and Mexico since reference year 2015.The database consists of ten datasets presenting various combinations of breakdowns by economic activity, employment size class, concentration of trade, partner countries, commodity, type of traders, type of ownership (foreign vs. domestic), exports intensity.TEC data are collected in co-operation with Eurostat and directly from National Statistical Authorities (NSOs). To create TEC data, NSOs have to attribute trade flows to enterprises with different characteristics by merging data on international trade (usually customs data) with statistical business register information on enterprises at the individual enterprise level.Related datasets:Employer Business Demography Statistics,Business Demography Statistics,Structural Business Statistics by Size Class,Timely indicators of entrepreneurship by enterprise characteristics.