That dollar amount results from a 73.1% upturn from $46.7 billion 5 years earlier in 2021.
Year over year, the overall value of Slovenian exports accelerated by 21.3% compared to $66.6 billion starting from 2024.
Based on the average exchange rate for 2025, Slovenia uses the euro which strengthened via a 4.4% gain against the US dollar from 2024 to 2025. The stronger European Union currency made Slovenia’s exports paid for in weaker US dollars more expensive for international buyers starting from American currency.
Slovenia’s Most Valuable Trading Partners
The latest available country-specific data shows that 82.6% of products exported from Slovenia was bought by importers in: Switzerland (42.2% of the Slovenian total), Germany (10.2%), Croatia (6.8%), Italy (6.3%), Austria (4%), France (2.5%), Poland (2.2%), Serbia (2.1%), Hungary (1.9%), Russia (1.8%), Czech Republic (1.5%) then Bosnia and Herzegovina (1.4%).
From a continental perspective, 94.2% of Slovenia’s exports by value was delivered to fellow European countries (with 44.1% going to EU members). Meanwhile 3.2% was sold to importers located in Asia. Slovenia shipped another 1.5% worth of goods to buyers in North America.
Smaller percentages went to customers based in Africa (0.7%), Latin America (0.23%) excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean, then Oceania (0.21%) led by Australia and New Zealand.
Given Slovenia’s population of 2.13 million people, its total US$80.8 billion in 2025 exports translates to roughly $37,950 for every resident in the south-central European nation. That dollar metric outpaces the average $31,400 per capita one year earlier for 2024.
Slovenia’s Top 10 Exports
The following export product groups represent the highest dollar value in Slovenian global shipments during 2025. Also shown is the percentage share each export category represents in terms of overall exports from Slovenia.
- Pharmaceuticals: US$35.9 billion (44.4% of total exports)
- Electrical machinery, equipment: $6.1 billion (7.5%)
- Vehicles: $5.4 billion (6.7%)
- Machinery including computers: $4.9 billion (6%)
- Organic chemicals: $4.3 billion (5.3%)
- Mineral fuels including oil: $2.9 billion (3.6%)
- Plastics, plastic articles: $2 billion (2.5%)
- Aluminum: $1.8 billion (2.2%)
- Iron, steel: $1.4 billion (1.7%)
- Optical, technical, medical apparatus: $1.2 billion (1.5%)
Slovenia’s top 10 export product categories generated over four-fifths (81.4%) of the overall value of its global shipments.
Organic chemicals represent the fastest grower among the top 10 export categories, up by 734.5% from 2024 to 2025.
In second place for improving export sales were pharmaceuticals via a 31.8% advance.
Slovenia’s shipments of optical, technical and medical apparatus posted the third-fastest gain in value, up by 14%.
The leading decliner among Slovenia’s top 10 export categories were the metals iron and steel, thanks to a -6.1% year-over-year drop.
The above listed product groups are at the two-digit Harmonized Tariff System (HTS) code level.
Drilling down to the more detailed four-digit HTS codes, Slovenia’s most lucrative exported product is medication mixes in dosage (39.2% of the Slovenian total). In second place were blood fractions including antisera (4.9%) and heterocyclics or nucleic acids (also 4.9%) trailed by cars (3.9%), processed petroleum oils (2.2%), automobile parts or accessories (1.6%), electrical energy (1.3%), new rubber tires (0.9%), television receivers, monitors and projectors (0.8%), then electric water heaters and hair dryers (also 0.8%).
Products Driving Slovenia’s Best Trade Surpluses
Slovenia generated an overall US$1.44 billion trade surplus for 2025, reversing an -$8.4 billion deficit one year earlier in 2024.
The following types of Slovenian 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.
- Pharmaceuticals: US$22.3 billion (Up by 38.5% since 2024)
- Electrical machinery, equipment: $1.2 billion (Up by 6.9%)
- Machinery including computers: $620.7 million (Down by -24.5%)
- Wood: $380.4 million (Down by -2.9%)
- Furniture, bedding, lighting, signs, prefab buildings: $332.7 million (Up by 22.6%)
- Miscellaneous food preparations: $326.8 million (Up by 22%)
- Rubber, rubber articles: $321.8 million (Down by -0.7%)
- Tanning, dyes, paints, varnishes, ink: $286 million (Up by 2.8%)
- Paper, paper items: $236.2 million (Down by -1%)
- Perfumes, cosmetics: $221.3 million (Up by 45.1%)
Slovenia has highly positive net exports in the international trade of pharmaceuticals. In turn, that cashflow indicates Slovenia’s strong competitive advantage under the pharmaceuticals product category.
Products Causing Slovenia’s Worst Trade Deficits
Below are exports from Slovenia that result in negative net exports or product trade balance deficits. These negative net exports reveal product categories where foreign spending on home country Slovenia’s goods trail Slovenian importer spending on foreign products.
- Organic chemicals: -US$17.9 billion (Down by -19.5% since 2024)
- Mineral fuels including oil: -$2.2 billion (Up by 8%)
- Iron, steel: -$590.1 million (Up by 14.4%)
- Gems, precious metals: -$346.1 million (Up by 139.9%)
- Vehicles: -$299.6 million (Up by 55%)
- Cereal/milk preparations: -$237.5 million (Up by 8.4%)
- Fruits, nuts: -$224.7 million (Up by 13%)
- Meat: -$216.5 million (Down by -1%)
- Tobacco, manufactured substitutes: -$209 million (Up by 6.1%)
- Plastics, plastic articles: -$204.3 million (Up by 24.9%)
Slovenia has highly negative net exports and therefore deep international trade deficits for organic chemicals as well as mineral fuels-related products–historically refined oils, petroleum gases and electrical energy.
Slovenian Export Companies
Not one Slovenian corporation ranks among Forbes Global 2000.
Wikipedia also lists companies based in Slovenia. Selected examples are shown below.
- Academa (custom software)
- Adria Mobil (motorhomes)
- Akrapovič (motorcycle exhaust systems)
- Alpina Žiri (shoes, boots)
- Gorenje (home appliances)
- Krka (pharmaceuticals)
- Litostroj (heavy machinery)
- Tomos (motorcycles)
In macroeconomic terms, Slovenia’s total exported goods represent 65.5% of its overall Gross Domestic Product for 2025 ($123.5 billion valued in Purchasing Power Parity US dollars). That 65.5% for exports to overall GDP in PPP for 2025 compares to 56.4% for 2024. This suggests a relatively increasing reliance on products sold on international markets for Slovenia’s total economic performance, albeit based on a short timeframe.
Please note that those percentages include a significant amount of re-exporting activity partly due to the country’s proximity to European trading hubs notably the economic powerhouse Germany.
Another key economic signal is a country’s unemployment rate. In 2025, Slovenia’s jobless rate averaged 3.883% up from an average 3.675% for 2024.
Slovenia’s capital city is Ljubljana.
See also Germany’s Top Trading Partners, Lithuania’s Top 10 Exports, Croatia’s Top 10 Exports and Top EU Export Countries
Research Sources:
Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook Europe: Slovenia. Accessed on October 9, 2026
Forbes Global 2000 rankings, The World’s Biggest Public Companies. Accessed on October 9, 2026
International Monetary Fund, Exchange Rates selected indicators (National Currency per U.S. dollar, period average). Accessed on October 9, 2026
International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook Database (GDP based on Purchasing Power Parity). Accessed on October 9, 2026
International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on October 9, 2026
Investopedia, Net Exports Definition. Accessed on October 9, 2026
Wikipedia, Gross domestic product. Accessed on October 9, 2026
Wikipedia, Latvia. Accessed on October 9, 2026
Wikipedia, List of Companies of Slovenia. Accessed on October 9, 2026
Wikipedia, Purchasing power parity. Accessed on October 9, 2026
Wikipedia, Latvia. Accessed on October 9, 2026