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

In 2024, an estimated $16.1 billion of Uzbekistan’s trade passed through the Strait of Malacca and Singapore, 46% of its seaborne trade. That is $2.8 billion of exports and $13.3 billion of imports. The partners with the most trade through it are China, Russia and South Korea.

Summary

Estimated value
$16.1billion
Of its seaborne trade
46%
Exports
$2.8billion
Imports
$13.3billion

Trend

Estimated value per year

Uzbekistan’s estimated trade through the Strait of Malacca and Singapore rose 53% between 2019 and 2024

Value in USD billions

  • Uzbekistan 16.1

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearEstimated valueOf its seaborne trade
1995$517 million24.6%
1996$1.2 billion23.4%
1997$1.5 billion28.2%
1998$903 million24.6%
1999$825 million28.8%
2000$678 million22.6%
2001$785 million24.9%
2002$644 million24.9%
2003$890 million27.1%
2004$1.4 billion31.6%
2005$1.6 billion30.3%
2006$2.2 billion31.9%
2007$2.7 billion30%
2008$3.4 billion29.3%
2009$3.5 billion36.8%
2010$4.1 billion43.5%
2011$4.6 billion40.2%
2012$5.3 billion45.9%
2013$7.3 billion50.8%
2014$6.6 billion50.2%
2015$5.1 billion48.7%
2016$4.8 billion47.6%
2017$6.3 billion44.2%
2018$9.3 billion48.4%
2019$10.6 billion48.3%
2020$8.9 billion47.4%
2021$9.5 billion41.2%
2022$12.5 billion44.1%
2023$17.5 billion48.8%
2024$16.1 billion46%

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. Uzbekistan–China$11.1 billion · 68.6%
  2. Uzbekistan–Russia$2.8 billion · 17.2%
  3. Uzbekistan–South Korea$1.7 billion · 10.6%
  4. Uzbekistan–Japan$276 million · 1.7%
  5. Uzbekistan–Singapore$121 million · 0.75%
  6. Uzbekistan–Vietnam$69 million · 0.43%
  7. Uzbekistan–Thailand$48 million · 0.3%
  8. Uzbekistan–Hong Kong$46 million · 0.29%
  9. Uzbekistan–Mongolia$14 million · 0.08%
  10. Uzbekistan–Malaysia$11 million · 0.07%

What crosses it

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

  1. Cars$1.2 billion · 7.4%
  2. Natural gas and LPG$977 million · 6.1%
  3. Auto parts$912 million · 5.7%
  4. Refined copper$525 million · 3.3%
  5. Refined petroleum$374 million · 2.3%
  6. Cotton yarn$368 million · 2.3%
  7. Diodes, transistors and solar cells$340 million · 2.1%
  8. Generating sets$246 million · 1.5%
  9. Sorting and crushing machines$242 million · 1.5%
  10. Other industrial machines$239 million · 1.5%

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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