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How much of Kyrgyzstan’s trade passes through the Strait of Gibraltar?

In 2024, an estimated $4.2 billion of Kyrgyzstan’s trade passed through the Strait of Gibraltar, 61.3% of its seaborne trade. That is $791 million of exports and $3.4 billion of imports. The partners with the most trade through it are Russia, South Korea and Germany.

Summary

Estimated value
$4.2billion
Of its seaborne trade
61.3%
Exports
$791million
Imports
$3.4billion

Trend

Estimated value per year

Kyrgyzstan’s estimated trade through the Strait of Gibraltar rose 276% between 2019 and 2024

Value in USD billions

  • Kyrgyzstan 4.2

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearEstimated valueOf its seaborne trade
1995$300 million50%
1996$533 million52.2%
1997$228 million40.3%
1998$209 million39.8%
1999$148 million37.6%
2000$226 million43.6%
2001$181 million44.1%
2002$236 million46.3%
2003$242 million41%
2004$332 million40.1%
2005$407 million39.5%
2006$626 million40.1%
2007$837 million38.4%
2008$1.1 billion40.6%
2009$828 million41.1%
2010$999 million41.5%
2011$1.4 billion43.8%
2012$1.5 billion42.4%
2013$1.6 billion39.5%
2014$1.5 billion38.6%
2015$904 million37.6%
2016$793 million36.9%
2017$1.2 billion39.8%
2018$1.2 billion38.1%
2019$1.1 billion37.5%
2020$998 million38%
2021$1.4 billion36.2%
2022$2.2 billion37.5%
2023$2.9 billion39%
2024$4.2 billion61.3%

Partners whose trade crosses it

Estimated value of its trade with each partner that crosses the chokepoint; the percentage is the share of all its trade through the chokepoint, not of the pair’s trade.

  1. Kyrgyzstan–Russia$2 billion · 48.5%
  2. Kyrgyzstan–South Korea$557 million · 13.3%
  3. Kyrgyzstan–Germany$351 million · 8.4%
  4. Kyrgyzstan–United States$184 million · 4.4%
  5. Kyrgyzstan–Poland$138 million · 3.3%
  6. Kyrgyzstan–Japan$95 million · 2.3%
  7. Kyrgyzstan–Lithuania$86 million · 2%
  8. Kyrgyzstan–Belarus$81 million · 1.9%
  9. Kyrgyzstan–United Arab Emirates$72 million · 1.7%
  10. Kyrgyzstan–Czechia$67 million · 1.6%

What crosses it

The products with the highest estimated value in 2024, with their share of the total through the chokepoint.

  1. Cars$892 million · 21.3%
  2. Refined petroleum$672 million · 16.1%
  3. Auto parts$128 million · 3.1%
  4. Steel bars$121 million · 2.9%
  5. Natural gas and LPG$91 million · 2.2%
  6. Footwear parts$90 million · 2.1%
  7. Trucks$72 million · 1.7%
  8. Furnishing textiles$61 million · 1.5%
  9. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$47 million · 1.1%
  10. Chocolate$47 million · 1.1%

Reference ports

Batumi (100%)

Each port with the weight it receives from the country’s trade, based on where its GDP is generated and which coast is closest.

Other chokepoints it uses

Sources and method

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Methodology

We estimate the value crossing each chokepoint from BACI trade that travels by sea according to our mode heuristic, split between each country’s ports by where its GDP is generated and which coast is closest, and routed over our own sea network. It is an estimate, not a count of ships. It covers 99.9% of seaborne trade. The approach follows Verschuur, Lumma and Hall (Nature Communications, 2025). Data up to 2024.

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