How dependent is Afghanistan on Uzbekistan?

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%.

• Uzbekistan sells 5.5% of what the world exports of wheat flour; next come Turkey (20.1%), Kazakhstan (8.6%) and Germany (8%). The rest of the world exported 17.2 times what Afghanistan buys from Uzbekistan.
• Uzbekistan sells 0.07% of what the world exports of refined petroleum; next come United States (11.7%), Singapore (6.3%) and South Korea (5.9%). The rest of the world exported 5,163.7 times what Afghanistan buys from Uzbekistan.
• Uzbekistan sells 2.1% of what the world exports of dried legumes (beans, lentils, peas); next come Canada (18.2%), Australia (12.8%) and Myanmar (10.4%). The rest of the world exported 162.4 times what Afghanistan buys from Uzbekistan.
• Uzbekistan sells 0.18% of what the world exports of electricity; next come France (14%), Germany (6.8%) and Switzerland (6.1%). The rest of the world exported 691.9 times what Afghanistan buys from Uzbekistan.
• Uzbekistan sells 0.87% of what the world exports of nitrogen fertilizers; next come Russia (14.5%), China (9.5%) and Oman (8%). The rest of the world exported 545.7 times what Afghanistan buys from Uzbekistan.
• Uzbekistan sells 0.19% of what the world exports of mixed fertilizers; next come Morocco (20.4%), China (15.4%) and Russia (14.6%). The rest of the world exported 868.8 times what Afghanistan buys from Uzbekistan.
• Uzbekistan sells 0.23% of what the world exports of sunflower, safflower and cottonseed oil; next come Ukraine (29.5%), Russia (24.1%) and Turkey (7%). The rest of the world exported 529.4 times what Afghanistan buys from Uzbekistan.
• Uzbekistan sells 0.59% of what the world exports of eggs in shell; next come Netherlands (17.5%), United States (10.4%) and Turkey (8.1%). The rest of the world exported 437.5 times what Afghanistan buys from Uzbekistan.
• Uzbekistan sells 0.5% of what the world exports of baby clothes (not knitted); next come China (25.9%), Bangladesh (17.7%) and India (10.2%). The rest of the world exported 304.9 times what Afghanistan buys from Uzbekistan.
• Uzbekistan sells 0.1% of what the world exports of tufted carpets; next come China (19.7%), Netherlands (12.6%) and India (9.9%). The rest of the world exported 2,349.7 times what Afghanistan buys from Uzbekistan.

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

Afghanistan is Uzbekistan’s 7th-largest customer, with 4% of its exports.

• Who does Afghanistan rely on?
• Who does Uzbekistan rely on?
• Dependence of Afghanistan on China
• Dependence of Afghanistan on Pakistan
• Trade profile of Afghanistan
• Trade profile of Uzbekistan
• 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.