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How much of Kyrgyzstan’s trade passes through the Turkish Straits?

In 2024, an estimated $4.9 billion of Kyrgyzstan’s trade passed through the Turkish Straits, 72.3% of its seaborne trade. That is $902 million of exports and $4 billion of imports. The partners with the most trade through it are Russia, South Korea and Germany.

Summary

Estimated value
$4.9billion
Of its seaborne trade
72.3%
Exports
$902million
Imports
$4billion

Trend

Estimated value per year

Kyrgyzstan’s estimated trade through the Turkish Straits rose 155% between 2019 and 2024

Value in USD billions

  • Kyrgyzstan 4.9

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearEstimated valueOf its seaborne trade
1995$452 million75.4%
1996$783 million76.7%
1997$401 million71%
1998$371 million70.5%
1999$293 million74.6%
2000$410 million79.1%
2001$319 million77.4%
2002$389 million76.4%
2003$436 million73.9%
2004$584 million70.6%
2005$746 million72.4%
2006$1.1 billion73.1%
2007$1.5 billion69.9%
2008$1.8 billion68.8%
2009$1.4 billion68%
2010$1.7 billion71.6%
2011$2.3 billion72.6%
2012$2.6 billion71.5%
2013$2.8 billion69.5%
2014$2.8 billion71.1%
2015$1.6 billion65.8%
2016$1.4 billion63.7%
2017$1.9 billion66.6%
2018$2.1 billion65.1%
2019$1.9 billion65.1%
2020$1.7 billion65%
2021$2.5 billion64.8%
2022$4.1 billion68.8%
2023$5.5 billion73.7%
2024$4.9 billion72.3%

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$2.2 billion · 43.7%
  2. Kyrgyzstan–South Korea$655 million · 13.3%
  3. Kyrgyzstan–Germany$351 million · 7.1%
  4. Kyrgyzstan–United States$184 million · 3.7%
  5. Kyrgyzstan–Italy$149 million · 3%
  6. Kyrgyzstan–Poland$138 million · 2.8%
  7. Kyrgyzstan–Japan$112 million · 2.3%
  8. Kyrgyzstan–Lithuania$86 million · 1.7%
  9. Kyrgyzstan–United Arab Emirates$85 million · 1.7%
  10. Kyrgyzstan–Belarus$81 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$1 billion · 20.4%
  2. Refined petroleum$733 million · 14.9%
  3. Auto parts$141 million · 2.9%
  4. Steel bars$128 million · 2.6%
  5. Natural gas and LPG$97 million · 2%
  6. Footwear parts$95 million · 1.9%
  7. Trucks$82 million · 1.7%
  8. Furnishing textiles$65 million · 1.3%
  9. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$60 million · 1.2%
  10. Dried legumes (beans, lentils, peas)$56 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.

The Bosporus and the Dardanelles are counted together: they are the two gates between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.

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