The following is a list of countries and territories by diamond exports. Data is for 2012, 2015, 2016 and 2023 in billions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity and the International Trade Centre. Currently the countries exporting over one billion dollars in 2023 are listed:
Country | Value in 2012 | Value in 2015 | Value in 2016 | Value in 2023 [1] |
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India | 2.41 | 23.2 | 29.4 | 18.2 |
United States | 0.64 | 6.81 | 5.64 | 16.8 |
Hong Kong | 1.05 | 7.79 | 7.59 | 14.6 |
United Arab Emirates | 3.12 | 8.66 | 8.22 | 10.3 |
Belgium [2] | 13.9 | 19.9 | 18.9 | 9.98 |
Israel | 3.45 | 14.8 | 14.1 | 6.57 |
Botswana | 4.33 | |||
Russia | 4.67 | 4.22 | 5.58 | 2.18 |
South Africa | 8.38 | 9.83 | 10.9 | 2.06 |
China | 0.01 | 1.99 | 1.16 | 1.93 |
Angola | 0 | 1.67 | 1.91 | 1.88 |
Canada | 1.69 | 2.58 | 2.35 | 1.70 |
Namibia | 1.61 | |||
Switzerland | 1.82 | 3.11 | 2.95 | 1.43 |
Thailand | 0.16 | 1.24 | 0.91 | 1.29 |
The economy of Israel is a highly developed free-market economy. The prosperity of Israel's advanced economy allows the country to have a sophisticated welfare state, a powerful modern military said to possess a nuclear-weapons capability with a full nuclear triad, modern infrastructure rivaling many Western countries, and a high-technology sector competitively on par with Silicon Valley. It has the second-largest number of startup companies in the world after the United States, and the third-largest number of NASDAQ-listed companies after the U.S. and China. American companies, such as Intel, Microsoft, and Apple, built their first overseas research and development facilities in Israel. More than 400 high-tech multi-national corporations, such as IBM, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, Facebook and Motorola have opened R&D centers throughout the country. As of 2025, the IMF estimated Israel has the 26th largest economy in the world by nominal GDP, and one of the biggest economies in the Middle East.