The country imports around 30% of its overall needs from countries like the United States ($10 billion), China ($6 billion), Brazil ($4.8 billion), Colombia ($2.3 billion) and Argentina ($2.2 billion).
Most of its imports would include packaged medicaments (around $2 billion), frozen Bovine meat ($1.1 billion), iron pipes (approximately $880 million), concentrated milk ($820 million and Bovine ($800 million).
Official Name (Local Language) | República Bolivariana de Venezuela | Capital | Caracas | Population | 30,912,302 | Currency | Venezuelan Bolivar | GDP | $333.7 billion | Languages | Spanish | Telephone Dial In | 58 |
44,952
4,21
170
Country
Trade
% Partner Share
United States
10,488
23.33
China
7,645
17.01
Brazil
4,503
10.02
Colombia
2,258
05.02
Mexico
2,232
4.97
Export Product
Number
Other medicaments of mixed or unmixed products,
5.7%
Frozen boneless bovine meat
2.0%
Oil-cake and other solid residues, of soya-bean
1.9%
Maize (excl. seed)
1.8%
Structures and parts of structures,i or s
1.7%
%
Product List
0,04
Corn, sorghum, sugarcane, rice, bananas, vegetables, coffee; beef, pork, milk, eggs; fish
%
Industry List
36.1%
Agricultural products, livestock, raw materials, machinery and equipment, transport equipment, construction materials, medical equipment, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, iron and steel products, crude oil and petroleum products
%
Services List
59.9%
The petroleum industry is the most dominant player in Venezuela’s economy and it delivers around 40% of the government’s income as well as over 90% of export earnings.
The country’s top exports would include crude petroleum (around $130 billion), refined petroleum (at $10 billion), acyclic alcohols ($710 million), petroleum coke ($430 million) and iron reductions ($381 million).
Apart from its petroleum industry, Venezuela’s manufacturing sector is also plays a major role in the country’s economy. It contributes 17% of the Gross Domestic Product 9GDP). Manufacturing firms situated around Ciudad Guayana produce and exports heavy industry products such as cement and steel.
Venezuela’s agriculture sectors also enable it to export agricultural goods such as crops, fish, coffee, pork and beef. This sector meanwhile accounts for around 3% of the country’s GDP.
The United States has been Venezuela’s most important partner in trade as the latter remains to be one of the top suppliers of foreign oil to the United States. In addition, the top export destinations of Venezuela goods are the North America and Central America ($30 billion), the United States ($29 billion), Asia ($28 billion) and India ($13 billion).
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Banco Central de Venezuela
56.57
10.5%
19.7%
7,2
29.5%
$333.7 billion
$15,100
Venezuelan Boliva
VEF
Upper Middle Income
130/138
169/180
188/190
136/136