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Jewelry conceptualWhich export product categories proved to be the most lucrative in 2025 in terms of international sales? Read on for answers to this key question for profit-minded entrepreneurs looking for opportunities to focus on goods attracting the greatest demand around the world.
The world’s leading exported product category was electrical machinery and equipment, overtaking mineral fuels including oil since 2022. The electrical machinery category accounted for 16% of overall worldwide sales for all products which totaled US$25.609 trillion for 2025. That percentage for the leading category exceeds the 15% one year earlier.
The most valuable exported products under the electrical machinery and equipment classification are electronic integrated circuits including parts (31.1% of electronics-related items), phone devices including smartphones (17.5%), insulated wire or cable (4.9%), electrical transformers and static converters (4.3%) then electric accumulators including separators (3.9%).
Machinery including computers generated 12.8% of the global exports total, ahead of the mineral fuels including oil product category at 10.6%, then exported vehicles taking a 7.4% share.
Best-selling exported goods considered machinery including computers are led by computers (23.6% of total revenues for category-related items), computer parts or accessories (8.3%), turbojets or other gas turbines (7%) then machines and equipment for manufacturing semi-conductors (4.6%).
Drilling down on all export product categories, those attracting the fastest-growing sales year over year were cocoa (up 35.3% compared to 2024), gems and precious metals (up 35.1%), arms and ammunition (up 32.9%), tin (up 31.5%), coffee, tea and spices (up 26%), fertilizers (up 21.8%), ships and boats (up 17.8%), then machinery including computers (up 16.9%).
Below are the world’s top export product categories that generated the highest dollar values during 2025. Also shown is the change in value for each product group from 2024 to 2025.
| 1 | Electrical machinery, equipment | $4,091,147,407,000 | +13.8% |
| 2 | Machinery including computers | $3,279,075,214,000 | +16.9% |
| 3 | Mineral fuels including oil | $2,727,104,618,000 | -7.5% |
| 4 | Vehicles | $1,885,486,614,000 | +1.2% |
| 5 | Gems, precious metals | $1,377,814,671,000 | +35.1% |
| 6 | Pharmaceuticals | $974,356,634,000 | +8.6% |
| 7 | Plastics, plastic articles | $745,211,989,000 | -0.2% |
| 8 | Optical, technical, medical apparatus | $737,648,838,000 | +5.8% |
| 9 | Organic chemicals | $519,006,178,000 | +6.8% |
| 10 | Iron, steel | $430,464,157,000 | -4.2% |
| 11 | Articles of iron or steel | $387,452,187,000 | +1.3% |
| 12 | Ores, slag, ash | $375,187,980,000 | +9.0% |
| 13 | Aircraft, spacecraft | $373,956,122,000 | +12.6% |
| 14 | Furniture, bedding, lighting , signs, prefab buildings | $310,965,995,000 | +0.8% |
| 15 | Knit or crochet clothing, accessories | $289,068,016,000 | +4.3% |
| 16 | Other chemical goods | $284,702,275,000 | +3.9% |
| 17 | Aluminum | $265,403,134,000 | +6.9% |
| 18 | Copper | $262,487,525,000 | +13.2% |
| 19 | Clothing, accessories (not knit or crochet) | $257,748,034,000 | +4.1% |
| 20 | Rubber, rubber articles | $234,266,446,000 | +3.3% |
| 21 | Perfumes, cosmetics | $198,059,179,000 | +1.8% |
| 22 | Meat | $193,004,434,000 | +13.0% |
| 23 | Paper, paper items | $189,919,990,000 | -0.3% |
| 24 | Inorganic chemicals | $184,562,102,000 | +1.0% |
| 25 | Ships, boats | $183,693,913,000 | +17.8% |
| 26 | Footwear | $181,719,461,000 | +7.7% |
| 27 | Fruits, nuts | $180,022,292,000 | +10.6% |
| 28 | Animal/vegetable fats, oils, waxes | $171,163,056,000 | +13.8% |
| 29 | Toys, games | $163,169,280,000 | +8.6% |
| 30 | Wood | $155,963,377,000 | +3.3% |
| 31 | Beverages, spirits, vinegar | $152,276,854,000 | +0.4% |
| 32 | Fish | $150,941,114,000 | +8.4% |
| 33 | Cereals | $145,143,695,000 | -6.4% |
| 34 | Dairy, eggs, honey | $130,350,919,000 | +12.0% |
| 35 | Oil seeds | $130,251,977,000 | -3.0% |
| 36 | Miscellaneous food preparations | $123,202,848,000 | +8.4% |
| 37 | Cocoa | $120,769,365,000 | +35.3% |
| 38 | Cereal/milk preparations | $119,793,246,000 | +6.1% |
| 39 | Food industry waste, animal fodder | $107,473,577,000 | -0.3% |
| 40 | Fertilizers | $102,539,189,000 | +21.8% |
| 41 | Leather/animal gut articles | $98,398,544,000 | -2.4% |
| 42 | Vegetables | $95,967,837,000 | -4.5% |
| 43 | Coffee, tea, spices | $95,683,780,000 | +26.0% |
| 44 | Vegetable/fruit/nut preparations | $93,493,667,000 | +2.8% |
| 45 | Glass | $90,115,107,000 | +0.5% |
| 46 | Tanning, dyes, paints, varnishes, ink | $89,709,462,000 | -1.1% |
| 47 | Other base metal goods | $87,091,622,000 | +0.5% |
| 48 | Soaps, washing preparations, lubricants, waxes | $85,656,716,000 | +4.3% |
| 49 | Miscellaneous textiles, worn clothing | $80,104,199,000 | +1.2% |
| 50 | Base metal tools, cutlery | $76,513,345,000 | +1.2% |
| 51 | Meat/seafood preparations | $67,736,189,000 | +4.8% |
| 52 | Miscellaneous manufactured articles | $66,174,336,000 | -1.1% |
| 53 | Tobacco, manufactured substitutes | $65,752,377,000 | -4.6% |
| 54 | Sugar, sugar confectionery | $62,973,567,000 | -10.9% |
| 55 | Salt, sulphur, stone, cement | $62,782,039,000 | +15.1% |
| 56 | Clocks , watches including parts | $62,280,511,000 | +3.0% |
| 57 | Ceramic products | $62,246,464,000 | +1.4% |
| 58 | Stone, plaster, cement, asbestos items | $59,467,059,000 | -1.3% |
| 59 | Manmade filaments | $53,250,996,000 | -3.0% |
| 60 | Woodpulp | $52,630,167,000 | -4.0% |
| 61 | Railways, streetcars | $51,902,436,000 | -8.1% |
| 62 | Cotton | $48,331,178,000 | -8.2% |
| 63 | Modified starches, glues, enzymes | $45,127,338,000 | +8.2% |
| 64 | Nickel | $43,416,823,000 | +8.7% |
| 65 | Arms, ammunition | $42,234,233,000 | +32.9% |
| 66 | Knit or crochet fabric | $40,141,183,000 | +0.9% |
| 67 | Books, newspapers, pictures | $35,355,502,000 | -7.6% |
| 68 | Manmade staple fibers | $35,341,525,000 | -3.4% |
| 69 | Collector items, art, antiques | $33,169,645,000 | +5.1% |
| 70 | Felt, yarn, twine, ropes, cables | $31,727,976,000 | +2.6% |
| 71 | Live animals | $31,507,476,000 | +4.6% |
| 72 | Live trees, plants, cut flowers | $28,577,482,000 | +6.4% |
| 73 | Coated/laminated textile fabric | $28,562,612,000 | +0.2% |
| 74 | Milling products, malt, starches | $25,520,932,000 | -7.2% |
| 75 | Other base metals | $24,990,811,000 | +9.6% |
| 76 | Zinc | $18,639,891,000 | +3.5% |
| 77 | Textile floor coverings | $17,805,623,000 | -0.4% |
| 78 | Photo/cinematographic goods | $16,569,154,000 | +5.4% |
| 79 | Headgear | $15,462,209,000 | +6.2% |
| 80 | Raw hides, skins not furskins, leather | $15,119,814,000 | -4.6% |
| 81 | Feathers, artificial flowers, hair | $12,933,340,000 | -2.9% |
| 82 | Special woven/tufted fabric, embroidery | $12,684,053,000 | +0.8% |
| 83 | Miscellaneous animal-origin products | $11,812,281,000 | +3.7% |
| 84 | Wool | $10,287,962,000 | +2.3% |
| 85 | Lead | $9,887,983,000 | +3.4% |
| 86 | Gums, resins, other vegetable saps | $9,821,632,000 | +2.0% |
| 87 | Tin | $9,562,496,000 | +31.5% |
| 88 | Musical instruments | $7,829,130,000 | -3.2% |
| 89 | Explosives, pyrotechnics, matches | $7,504,359,000 | +10.5% |
| 90 | Paper yarn, woven fabric | $7,117,318,000 | +0.2% |
| 91 | Umbrellas, walking-sticks | $4,104,820,000 | -5.3% |
| 92 | Furskins, artificial fur | $3,101,849,000 | -10.5% |
| 93 | Plaiting products, basketware, wickerwork | $2,700,919,000 | -5.1% |
| 94 | Cork , articles of cork | $2,065,778,000 | +1.0% |
| 95 | Vegetable plaiting materials | $2,060,685,000 | +13.3% |
| 96 | Silk | $1,785,653,000 | +5.7% |
In total, the top 20 product groups accounted for over three-quarters (78.2%) of global exports in 2025. The 20 top export product categories increased by an average 13.3% in 2025 compared to 5 years earlier in 2021, an increase below the 15.6% benchmark gain over 5 years for all export product categories.
From 2024 to 2025, the average sales for the top 20 product groups registered a 6.8% upturn which lags the benchmark 7% year-over-year expansion for all categories.
Widening our scope to the latest 5-year period, the greatest percentage sales increases were recorded by arms and ammunition including parts (up 121.1% from 2021), cocoa and cocoa preparations (up 115%), explosives and pyrotechnics (up 66.7%), aircraft and spacecraft (up 62.3%), gems and precious metals (up 62.1%), coffee, tea or spices (up 61.4%), tobacco and manufactured substitutes (up 48.9%), nickel both as materials and items made from nickel (up 45.3%), ships and boats (up 44.4%) then vegetable plaiting materials (up 41.8%).
The severest declining product categories since 2021 were: furskins and artificial fur (down -50.4%), straw manufactures including basketware and wickerwork (down -27.6%), cotton (down -23.2%) then the metals iron and steel (down -23%).
See also Electronic Circuit Component Exports by Country, Crude Oil Exports by Country, Car Exports by Country Plus Average Prices Per Car and Cellphone Exports by Country
Research Sources:
Central Intelligence Agency, Field Listing: Exports, Central Intelligence Agency. Accessed on August 25, 2026
International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on August 25, 2026
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