That dollar amount results from a 35.7% increase from $44.6 billion five years earlier in 2021.
Year over year, revenues collected for Oman’s total exports fell by -4% compared to $63 billion for 2024.
Oman’s top 5 most valuable exported products are crude oil, processed petroleum oils, petroleum gases, iron ores and concentrates, then nitrogenous fertilizers. Combined, those five product groups represent approaching three-quarters (70.5%) of Oman’s total exports by value in 2025. Such a high percentage indicates a relatively concentrated range of exported goods.
Given Oman’s population of over 5.5 million people, its total US$60.5 billion in 2025 exports translates to roughly $11,000 for every resident in the Middle Eastern country. That dollar amount lags Oman’s average $11,800 per person one year earlier during 2024.
Oman’s Top 10 Exports
The following export product groups represent the highest dollar value in Omani global shipments during 2025, at the 2-digit Harmonized Tariff System (HTS) code level. Also shown is the percentage share each export category represents in terms of overall exports from Oman.
- Mineral fuels including oil: US$40.1 billion (66.3% of total exports)
- Plastics, plastic articles: $2.3 billion (3.9%)
- Iron, steel: $2.1 billion (3.4%)
- Ores, slag, ash: $1.7 billion (2.8%)
- Machinery including computers: $1.5 billion (2.5%)
- Fertilizers: $1.4 billion (2.3%)
- Electrical machinery, equipment: $1.16 billion (1.9%)
- Aluminum: $1.15 billion (1.9%)
- Vehicles : $745.3 million (1.2%)
- Tobacco, manufactured substitutes: $627 million (1%)
Oman’s top 10 exports accounted for 87.1% of the overall value of Omani global shipments.
Machinery including computers represents the fastest grower among the top 10 export categories, up by 95.8% from 2024 to 2025.
In second place for improving export sales were vehicles via a 69.2% advance.
Oman’s shipments of tobacco and manufactured substitutes posted the third-fastest gain in value, up by 52.6%.
The leading decliner among Oman’s top 10 export categories was the ores, slag and ash grouping, thanks to a -15.6% year-over-year drop.
Drilling down to the more granular four-digit HTS codes, crude oil represents Oman’s most valuable exported product at 36.1% of the country’s total. In second place were processed petroleum oils (20.8%) trailed by petroleum gases (8.9%), iron ores and concentrates (2.4%), nitrogenous fertilizers (2.3%), iron or non-alloy steel bars and rods (1.5%), semi-finished products made from iron or non-alloy steel (1.4%), ethylene polymers (1.2%), moving, grading, scraping or boring machinery (1%) then unwrought aluminum (also 1%).
Products Generating Oman’s Largest Trade Surpluses
Overall, Oman generated a US$15.9 billion trade surplus for 2025, down by -18.9% from $19.6 billion in black ink one year earlier in 2024.
The following types of Omani product shipments represent positive net exports or a trade balance surplus. Investopedia defines net exports as the value of a country’s total exports minus the value of its total imports. In a nutshell, net exports represent the amount by which foreign spending on a home country’s goods or services exceeds or lags the home country’s spending on foreign goods or services.
- Mineral fuels including oil: US$30.5 billion (Down by -11.5% since 2024)
- Fertilizers: $1.3 billion (Up by 20.4%)
- Plastics, plastic articles: $1.3 billion (Down by -18.2%)
- Aluminum: $875.5 million (Up by 3.1%)
- Iron, steel: $494.6 million (Up by 78.2%)
- Ships, boats: $464.8 million (Up by 9.8%)
- Fish: $429.5 million (Up by 45.6%)
- Ores, slag, ash: $379.3 million (Down by -10%)
- Salt, sulphur, stone, cement: $278.3 million (Up by 12.5%)
- Tobacco, manufactured substitutes: $195.6 million (Reversing a -$17.3 million deficit)
Historically, Oman has highly positive net exports in the international trade of petroleum oils (both crude and refined) as well as petroleum gases. In turn, these cashflows indicate Oman’s strong competitive advantages under the mineral fuels including oil product category.
Products Causing Oman’s Worst Trade Deficits
Below are exports from Oman that result in negative net exports or product trade balance deficits. These negative net exports reveal product categories where foreign spending on home country Oman’s goods trail Omani importer spending on foreign products.
- Vehicles: -US$3.9 billion (Up by 16.4% since 2024)
- Machinery including computers: -$3.4 billion (Down by -8.9%)
- Electrical machinery, equipment: -$2 billion (Down by -10.2%)
- Articles of iron or steel: -$1 billion (Up by 1.2%)
- Cereals: -$835.4 million (Up by 9.7%)
- Pharmaceuticals: -$683.1 million (Up by 5.6%)
- Optical, technical, medical apparatus: -$639.7 million (Up by 18.4%)
- Copper: -$583.2 million (Up by 6.3%)
- Organic chemicals: -$512.3 million (Down by -29.8%)
- Live animals: -$480.4 million (Up by 98.7%)
Oman has highly negative net exports under the vehicles as well as the machinery including computers product categories.
Omani Export Companies
One Omani corporation ranks among Forbes Global 2000, namely Bank Muscat (regional bank).
Wikipedia also lists export-related companies from Oman. Selected examples are shown below.
- Oman LNG (oil, gas)
- Oman Oil Company (oil, gas)
- Oman Refinery Company (oil, gas)
- Omantel (telecommunications)
- Petroleum Development Oman (oil, gas)
- The Shaksy Group (diversified holding company)
In macroeconomic terms, Oman’s total exported goods represent 26.2% of its overall Gross Domestic Product for 2025 ($231.2 billion valued in Purchasing Power Parity US dollars). That 26.2% for exports to overall GDP in PPP for 2025 compares to 28.6% for 2024. Those percentages suggest a relatively decreasing reliance on products sold on international markets for Oman’s total economic performance, albeit based on a short timeframe.
Another key indicator of a country’s economic performance is its unemployment rate. Oman’s unemployment rate averaged 3.3% in 2025, exceeding the average 3.2% for 2024 per Trading Economics statistics.
Oman’s capital city is Muscat.
See also Crude Oil Exports by Country, UAE’s Top 10 Exports, Qatar’s Top Trading Partners and India’s Top Trading Partners
Research Sources:
Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook Country Profiles. Accessed on September 6, 2026
Forbes Global 2000 rankings, The World’s Biggest Public Companies. Accessed on September 6, 2026
International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook Database (GDP based on Purchasing Power Parity). Accessed on September 6, 2026
International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on September 6, 2026
Investopedia, Net Exports Definition. Accessed on September 6, 2026
Wikipedia, Gross domestic product. Accessed on September 6, 2026
Wikipedia, List of Companies of Oman. Accessed on September 6, 2026
Wikipedia, Oman. Accessed on September 6, 2026
Wikipedia, Purchasing power parity. Accessed on September 6, 2026