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How much of Japan’s trade passes through the Strait of Hormuz?

In 2024, an estimated $77 billion of Japan’s trade passed through the Strait of Hormuz, 8.3% of its seaborne trade. That is $13.8 billion of exports and $63.3 billion of imports. The partners with the most trade through it are the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

Summary

Estimated value
$77billion
Of its seaborne trade
8.3%
Exports
$13.8billion
Imports
$63.3billion

Trend

Estimated value per year

Japan’s estimated trade through the Strait of Hormuz in 2024 was about the same as in 2019

Value in USD billions

  • Japan 77

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearEstimated valueOf its seaborne trade
1995$25 billion5.3%
1996$28.2 billion6.1%
1997$31.9 billion6.7%
1998$24.5 billion5.8%
1999$26.3 billion5.9%
2000$40.3 billion7.9%
2001$37.3 billion7.9%
2002$35.4 billion7.2%
2003$44.5 billion8.1%
2004$54.8 billion8.5%
2005$71.6 billion9.9%
2006$90.3 billion11.2%
2007$100.6 billion11.2%
2008$149.4 billion14%
2009$80.9 billion10.8%
2010$104.7 billion10.8%
2011$135.3 billion12.1%
2012$146.2 billion12.6%
2013$137.9 billion12.8%
2014$134 billion12.7%
2015$66.8 billion8%
2016$60.7 billion7.4%
2017$71.3 billion8%
2018$87.6 billion8.9%
2019$77 billion8.2%
2020$51.3 billion6.5%
2021$71.8 billion7.6%
2022$102.2 billion9.4%
2023$88.3 billion8.9%
2024$77 billion8.3%

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. Japan–United Arab Emirates$36.8 billion · 47.8%
  2. Japan–Saudi Arabia$21 billion · 27.3%
  3. Japan–Kuwait$9.1 billion · 11.8%
  4. Japan–Qatar$8.6 billion · 11.1%
  5. Japan–Bahrain$1 billion · 1.3%
  6. Japan–Iraq$464 million · 0.6%
  7. Japan–Iran$45 million · 0.06%

What crosses it

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

  1. Crude petroleum$51 billion · 66.2%
  2. Refined petroleum$7.7 billion · 10%
  3. Cars$6.8 billion · 8.8%
  4. Natural gas and LPG$2.7 billion · 3.5%
  5. Unwrought aluminum$1.2 billion · 1.6%
  6. Trucks$1 billion · 1.3%
  7. Auto parts$746 million · 0.97%
  8. Seamless steel pipes$484 million · 0.63%
  9. Buses$394 million · 0.51%
  10. New tires$358 million · 0.46%

Reference ports

Yokohama (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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