Percentage of each Japanese export category in Japan's overall exports in 2020, automobiles accounted for 19.1% of Japan's total exports, machinery, including computers, accounted for 19% of Japan's total exports, electrical machinery and equipment accounted for 16% of Japan's total exports, and optical, technological, and medical equipment accounted for 5.8% of Japan's total exports.
In 2020, Japan's top 5 global exports (broad categories) are "electromechanical products", "transportation equipment", "chemical products", "Base metals and products", "unclassified", the top 5 commodities (broad categories) exports amounted to 513.83 billion U.S. dollars, a year-on-year decline of 9.5%, accounting for a total of 80.1%, a decline of 0.4 percentage points compared with the same period a year earlier.