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Share of extra-EU natural gas import value from Russia from 2010 to 1st quarter 2025

Characteristic	Share of extra-EU natural gas imports
Q1 2025	18.19%
Q2 2024	18%
Q1 2024	16.2%
Q2 2023	12%
Q1 2023	14.8%
Q2 2022	29%
Q1 2022	30.5%
2021	39.7%
2020	42%
2019	45.5%
2018	40.2%
2017	39.3%
2016	39.9%
2015	37%
2014	37.5%
2013	39%
2012	32%
2011	30%
2010	35%

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May 2025

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2010 to Q1 2025

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Extra-EU refers to transactions with all countries outside the EU: the rest of the world except for the European Union (EU) Member States. The term is used in the context of external trade, balance of payments, foreign direct investment, migration, transport, tourism and similar statistical areas where goods, capital or people moving in and out of the EU are being measured and where the EU as a whole is considered in relationship to the rest of the world. Extra-EU transactions of the EU as a whole are the sum of the extra-EU transactions of the EU Member States.

Figures prior to 2019 were for EU-28, starting from 2019, for EU-27.
The statistic has been assembled from several reports by the source.

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Russia accounted for 18.19 percent of the value of natural gas imports into the European Union (EU) from non-EU countries in the first quarter of 2025. The share was higher than in the corresponding period of the previous year, but significantly lower than in 2021. The decrease was due to the Western sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine and the reduction of gas supplies by Gazprom to Europe.

Which EU countries import gas from Russia?

In 2023, the EU imported 27 billion cubic meters of natural gas via pipelines from Russia, compared to 140 billion cubic meters in 2021. Among the EU countries, Germany was by far the largest importer of natural gas from Russia. Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries such as Poland, Czechia, and Hungary also ranked in the top 10 before the war in Ukraine given their high dependence on Russian gas. After the onset of the war in 2022, Turkey and China emerged as some of the largest buyers of Russian pipeline gas.

The future of natural gas in a climate-neutral Europe

Gas continues to be the second-most important primary energy source in the EU, after petroleum-based products. However, to stay within the Paris Agreement’s target of 1.5 degrees Celsius, the EU is actively looking for ways to accelerate the transition to more renewable sources of energy, including the adoption of the European Green Deal and the Commission’s "Fit for 55" proposal and RePowerEU plan. Under these sustainable scenarios, the European gas demand is estimated to fall from 617 billion cubic meters in 2018 to 380 billion cubic meters in 2040.