How dependent is Afghanistan on China?

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A product has a dominant supplier when a single country sells more than 50% of what is bought of it; we flag it separately above 75%.

• China sells 61.9% of what the world exports of synthetic filament fabric; next come Taiwan (4.8%), South Korea (4.5%) and India (3.3%). The rest of the world exported 48.1 times what Afghanistan buys from China.
• China sells 22.8% of what the world exports of new tires; next come Thailand (8%), Japan (6%) and Germany (5.3%). The rest of the world exported 624.7 times what Afghanistan buys from China.
• China sells 28.6% of what the world exports of motorcycles; next come Japan (10.4%), Germany (8.3%) and Thailand (8.3%). The rest of the world exported 316 times what Afghanistan buys from China.
• China sells 50.6% of what the world exports of other knitted fabric; next come Taiwan (6.3%), Turkey (5.8%) and South Korea (5.5%). The rest of the world exported 182.5 times what Afghanistan buys from China.
• China sells 50.9% of what the world exports of other synthetic fiber fabric; next come India (8.9%), Turkey (6.1%) and Japan (4%). The rest of the world exported 26.8 times what Afghanistan buys from China.
• China sells 34.6% of what the world exports of transformers and power supplies; next come Germany (7%), Mexico (4.5%) and Japan (3.9%). The rest of the world exported 1,292.2 times what Afghanistan buys from China.
• China sells 39.2% of what the world exports of diodes, transistors and solar cells; next come Malaysia (8.6%), Japan (7.4%) and Vietnam (5.9%). The rest of the world exported 1,345 times what Afghanistan buys from China.
• China sells 18.6% of what the world exports of liquid pumps; next come Germany (14.7%), United States (11.5%) and Italy (6.7%). The rest of the world exported 1,286.9 times what Afghanistan buys from China.
• China sells 46.2% of what the world exports of cameras and broadcast equipment; next come Vietnam (13.1%), Taiwan (4.4%) and India (4.3%). The rest of the world exported 8,004 times what Afghanistan buys from China.
• China sells 44% of what the world exports of synthetic staple fiber fabric; next come United States (6.5%), Turkey (6.3%) and Italy (5.2%). The rest of the world exported 48.1 times what Afghanistan buys from China.

Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.

Afghanistan is China’s 120th-largest customer, with 0.04% of its exports.

• Trade between Afghanistan and China
• Who does Afghanistan rely on?
• Who does China rely on?
• Dependence of Afghanistan on Pakistan
• Dependence of Afghanistan on Uzbekistan
• Trade profile of Afghanistan
• Trade profile of China
• All countries

Sources and licenses

• CEPII BACI · Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0
• Natural Earth · Public domain

Methodology

The data come from CEPII BACI (Etalab 2.0 licence), which reconciles what the exporting and the importing country report, in current USD, FOB. Data up to 2024.

Dependence is the share of a country’s imports (or exports) that each partner accounts for. It does not measure whether a product has a substitute or how much it would cost to change supplier.

The concentration index (HHI) adds up the square of each partner’s share, in percent: it runs from 0 to 10,000. Its equivalent is 10,000 ÷ HHI, the number of partners of the same size that would give that value.

Products are HS4 headings of the 1992 nomenclature (some combine different goods), with a floor of $1 million per product and country.

The EU is the 27 current members in every year; the United Kingdom is outside the EU throughout the series.

Re-exports: countries that act as redistribution hubs carry their notice and the figures are not corrected.