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How much of Kazakhstan’s trade passes through the Strait of Malacca and Singapore?

In 2024, an estimated $6.7 billion of Kazakhstan’s trade passed through the Strait of Malacca and Singapore, 10.3% of its seaborne trade. That is $3.5 billion of exports and $3.2 billion of imports. The partners with the most trade through it are South Korea, Japan and Singapore.

Summary

Estimated value
$6.7billion
Of its seaborne trade
10.3%
Exports
$3.5billion
Imports
$3.2billion

Trend

Estimated value per year

Kazakhstan’s estimated trade through the Strait of Malacca and Singapore rose 23% between 2019 and 2024

Value in USD billions

  • Kazakhstan 6.7

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearEstimated valueOf its seaborne trade
1995$181 million10.6%
1996$389 million15.7%
1997$445 million11.7%
1998$367 million6.5%
1999$273 million6.8%
2000$360 million4%
2001$441 million4.4%
2002$498 million4.2%
2003$692 million5.5%
2004$1.3 billion6.4%
2005$1.6 billion6%
2006$1.9 billion5.7%
2007$2.8 billion6.5%
2008$2.7 billion4.9%
2009$1.6 billion4%
2010$2 billion4.3%
2011$2.6 billion4.5%
2012$3 billion4.9%
2013$3.3 billion5.5%
2014$3.3 billion5.5%
2015$2.7 billion6.9%
2016$2.1 billion6.8%
2017$3.5 billion8.4%
2018$4.8 billion9.8%
2019$5.4 billion11.4%
2020$4.3 billion12.2%
2021$5.8 billion12.8%
2022$9.2 billion13.6%
2023$10 billion15.7%
2024$6.7 billion10.3%

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. Kazakhstan–South Korea$2.9 billion · 43.1%
  2. Kazakhstan–Japan$1.6 billion · 23.8%
  3. Kazakhstan–Singapore$909 million · 13.6%
  4. Kazakhstan–Vietnam$406 million · 6.1%
  5. Kazakhstan–Thailand$219 million · 3.3%
  6. Kazakhstan–Brunei$185 million · 2.8%
  7. Kazakhstan–Taiwan$155 million · 2.3%
  8. Kazakhstan–Hong Kong$126 million · 1.9%
  9. Kazakhstan–Philippines$123 million · 1.8%
  10. Kazakhstan–Mongolia$60 million · 0.9%

What crosses it

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

  1. Crude petroleum$2 billion · 29.9%
  2. Cars$891 million · 13.3%
  3. Ferroalloys$606 million · 9.1%
  4. Vehicle bodies and cabs$471 million · 7.1%
  5. Auto parts$383 million · 5.7%
  6. Spark-ignition engines$191 million · 2.9%
  7. Unwrought lead$181 million · 2.7%
  8. Bulldozers and excavators$136 million · 2%
  9. Coal$125 million · 1.9%
  10. Trucks$108 million · 1.6%

Reference ports

Novorossiysk (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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