That calculated dollar amount results from a 17.8% increase compared to five years earlier in 2021 when Egyptian exports totaled $43.6 billion.
Year over year, the value of Egypt’s overall exports accelerated by 14.6% from $44.8 billion during 2024.
Based on the average exchange rate for 2025, Egypt’s legal currency is the Egyptian pound which depreciated by -10.6% against the US dollar from 2024 to 2025. The depleted Egyptian currency in 2025 made Egypt’s exports paid for in stronger US dollars relatively less expensive for international buyers starting with American currency.
Egypt’s Major International Trade Partners
The latest data shows that 58.1% of products exported from Egypt was bought by importers in: United Arab Emirates (13.7% of the Egyptian total), Italy (7.9%), Türkiye (6.4%), Saudi Arabia (5.8%), United States of America (5.3%), Switzerland (3.4%), United Kingdom (3.1%), Libya (2.9%), Spain (2.8%), Germany (2.4%), Algeria (2.3%) and Brazil (2.2%).
From a continental perspective, 40.5% of Egypt exports by value was delivered to Asian countries while 35.9% was sold to importers located in Europe.
Egypt shipped another 14.8% worth of goods to buyers in Africa.
Smaller percentages went to customers in North America (5.9%), Latin America excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean, then Oceania (0.1%) led by Australia and New Zealand.
Given Egypt’s population of 109.5 million people, its total US$51.4 billion in 2025 exports translates to about $475 for every resident in the transcontinental nation. That dollar metric eclipses the average $360 per capita one year earlier in 2024.
Egypt’s Top 10 Exports
The following export product groups represent the highest dollar value in Egyptian global shipments during 2025. Also shown is the percentage share each export category represents in terms of overall exports from Egypt.
- Gems, precious metals: US$7.6 billion (14.8% of total exports)
- Mineral fuels including oil: $5 billion (9.8%)
- Electrical machinery, equipment: $3.5 billion (6.7%)
- Fruits, nuts: $3 billion (5.8%)
- Plastics, plastic articles: $2.6 billion (5%)
- Clothing, accessories (not knit or crochet): $2.33 billion (4.5%)
- Fertilizers: $2.25 billion (4.4%)
- Vegetables: $2.19 billion (4.3%)
- Iron, steel: $1.8 billion (3.5%)
- Salt, sulphur, stone, cement: $1.6 billion (3.1%)
Egypt’s top 10 export product categories approached two-thirds (62%) of the overall value of its global shipments.
Gems and precious metals represent the fastest grower among the top 10 export categories, up by 133.8% year over year since 2024.
Other leading gainers were unknitted and non-crocheted clothing or accessories which rose 20% ahead of electrical machinery and equipment (up 15.2%) then fruits and nuts (up 15.1%).
The leading decliners among the top 10 Egyptian export categories were the metals iron and steel which fell -17.6% year over year, and mineral fuels including oil (down -10%).
The above information is presented at the 2-digit Harmonized Tariff System (HTS) code level.
From the more granular 4-digit HTS code perspective, unwrought gold was the top Egyptian export (14.8% of total exports) during 2025. In second place were processed petroleum oils (6.6%) ahead of insulated wire or cable (3.6%), nitrogenous fertilizers (3.3%), fresh or dried citrus fruit (2.2%), crude oil (1.9%), unknitted and non-crocheted men’s suits and trousers (also 1.9%), hydraulic cements (1.6%), copper wire (also 1.6%) then television receivers, monitors and projectors (1.5%).
Countries Generating Egypt’s Biggest Trade Surpluses
The following types of Egyptian 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.
- Gems, precious metals: US$6.5 billion (Up by 112.3% since 2024)
- Fruits, nuts: $2.4 billion (Up by 10.8%)
- Clothing, accessories (not knit or crochet): $2.1 billion (Up by 17.2%)
- Fertilizers: $1.9 billion (Down by -0.6%)
- Vegetables: $1.6 billion (Up by 17.4%)
- Salt, sulphur, stone, cement: $1.3 billion (Down by -1.3%)
- Knit or crochet clothing, accessories: $1 billion (Up by 30.8%)
- Vegetable/fruit/nut preparations: $996.4 million (Down by -3.9%)
- Miscellaneous food preparations: $507.4 million (Up by 377.9%)
- Glass: $465.2 million (Up by 8.8%)
Historically, Egypt has highly positive net exports in the international trade of gold. In turn, these cashflows indicate Egypt’s strong competitive advantages under the gems and precious metals product category.
Countries Causing Egypt’s Worst Trade Deficits
Egypt incurred an estimated -US$49.6 billion product trade deficit for 2025, down by -0.5% from the -$49.9 billion in red ink one year earlier for 2024.
Below are exports from Egypt that result in negative net exports or product trade balance deficits. These negative net exports reveal product categories where foreign spending on home country Egypt’s goods trail Egyptian importer spending on foreign products.
- Mineral fuels including oil: -US$16.6 billion (Up by 45.7% since 2024)
- Machinery including computers: -$7.5 billion (Up by 12.2%)
- Cereals: -$6.7 billion (Down by -0.6%)
- Vehicles: -$5.6 billion (Up by 20.7%)
- Electrical machinery, equipment: -$3.2 billion (Down by -1.6%)
- Iron, steel: -$2.47 billion (Down by -16.9%)
- Pharmaceuticals: -$2.43 billion (Down by -21%)
- Organic chemicals: -$1.95 billion (Down by -19.6%)
- Oil seeds: -$1.9 billion (Up by 11.5%)
- Animal/vegetable fats, oils, waxes: -$1.7 billion (Down by -9.9%)
Historically, Egypt has highly negative net exports and therefore deep international trade deficits for energy-related products under the mineral fuels including oil.
Egyptian Export Companies
One Egyptian regional bank ranks among Forbes Global 2000 for 2021, namely Cairo-based Commercial International Bank.
Wikipedia lists some exports-related companies from Egypt. Selected examples are shown below.
- ABU QIR Fertilizers and Chemicals Industries (nitrogen fertilizers)
- Al-Mansour Automotive (automobiles)
- Arab American Vehicles (automobiles)
- Arab Contractors (construction materials)
- BiscoMisr (baked products)
- Challenger Ltd (oil, gas)
- Corona (confectionery, chocolate)
- Egyptian Natural Gas (oil, gas)
- Egy-Tech Engineering (automobiles)
- Juhayna (beverages, yogurt)
In macroeconomic terms, Egypt’s total exported goods represent 2.2% of its overall Gross Domestic Product for 2025 ($2.372 trillion valued in Purchasing Power Parity US dollars). That 2.2% for exports to overall GDP in PPP for 2025 lags the 1.7% for 2024. Those metrics suggest a relatively increasing reliance on products sold on international markets for Egypt’s total economic performance, albeit based on a relatively short timeframe.
Another key indicator of a country’s economic performance is its unemployment rate. Egypt’s unemployment rate averaged 7.665% for 2025, up from an average 7.375% one year earlier in 2024 according to International Monetary Fund statistics.
Egypt’s capital city is Cairo.
See also Egypt’s Top 10 Imports, Uganda’s Top 10 Exports, Somalia’s Top 10 Exports, Turkey’s Top Trading Partners and India’s Top Trading Partners
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