AUSTRALIA'S TOP 25 EXPORTS, GOODS & SERVICES (a)

(A$ million)

% grow
% share 2019-20 to
Rank Commodity 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2020-21 2020-21

Total (b) 470,398 475,088 459,239 100.0 -3.3

1 Iron ore & concentrates 77,520 102,864 152,975 33.3 48.7

2 Coal 69,595 54,620 39,196 8.5 -28.2
3 Natural gas 49,727 47,525 30,477 6.6 -35.9
4 Education-related travel services (c) 37,824 37,338 27,554 6.0 -26.2
5 Gold 18,867 24,394 26,105 5.7 7.0

6 Beef, f.c.f. 9,476 11,258 8,370 1.8 -25.7

7 Aluminium ores & conc (incl alumina) 11,358 8,875 8,155 1.8 -8.1
8 Copper ores & concentrates 5,969 6,854 7,328 1.6 6.9
9 Crude petroleum 8,494 8,568 7,001 1.5 -18.3
10 Wheat 3,657 3,847 6,805 1.5 76.9

11 Personal cultural & recreational services (c) 1,465 3,284 6,152 1.3 87.3
12 Professional services 5,981 6,235 5,551 1.2 -11.0
13 Telecom, computer & information services 4,719 5,320 5,387 1.2 1.3
14 Meat (excl beef), f.c.f. 5,151 5,520 4,842 1.1 -12.3
15 Technical & other business services 4,675 5,098 4,488 1.0 -12.0

16 Copper 3,939 3,433 4,233 0.9 23.3

17 Financial services 4,545 5,083 4,161 0.9 -18.1
18 Aluminium 4,248 3,761 3,828 0.8 1.8
19 Other ores & concentrates (d) 3,523 3,678 3,539 0.8 -3.8
20 Alcoholic beverages 3,374 3,265 2,797 0.6 -14.3

21 Refined petroleum 3,005 2,411 2,498 0.5 3.6

22 Wool & other animal hair (incl tops) 3,815 2,516 2,437 0.5 -3.1
23 Gold coin & legal tender coin 786 1,035 2,253 0.5 117.6
24 Oil-seeds & oleaginous fruits, soft 997 1,188 2,214 0.5 86.3
25 Pharm products (excl medicaments) 2,954 3,631 2,210 0.5 -39.1

Memorandum items

Education (e) 38,438 39,708 32,846 7.2 -17.3

Tourism Satellite Account 39,554 31,235 nya .. ..

(a) Goods trade is on a recorded trade basis, Services trade is on a balance of payments basis. (b) Balance of payments basis. (c) Effective Jan
there has been a compositional shift in where some student fees are located in services data due to COVID-19; students have continued to st
pay fees to Australian universities, but as they are no longer located in Australia due to travel interruptions, this spend is now captured unde
cultural & recreational services . (d) Mainly of Lead, Zinc and Manganese ores & concentrates. (e) Education includes Education-related trave
Royalties on education services and Other education services .
Based on ABS trade data on DFAT STARS database and ABS catalogues 5368.0 (Jan-2022) & 5249.0.

Produced by: Statistics Section

Trade and Investment Economics Branch
Office of the Chief Economist statssection@dfat.gov.au
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Produced by: Statistics Section

Trade and Investment Economics Branch
Office of the Chief Economist statssection@dfat.gov.au