How dependent is Australia on Indonesia?

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%.

• Indonesia sells 8.4% of what the world exports of large-diameter steel pipes; next come Germany (13.6%), China (13.6%) and India (9.4%). The rest of the world exported 14.1 times what Australia buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 9.4% of what the world exports of aluminum oxide and hydroxide; next come Brazil (17%), China (9.8%) and Germany (4.3%). The rest of the world exported 164.6 times what Australia buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 8.5% of what the world exports of ammonia; next come Trinidad and Tobago (20.6%), Saudi Arabia (13%) and Canada (8.2%). The rest of the world exported 367.8 times what Australia buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 12.3% of what the world exports of pearls; next come Japan (31.4%), French Polynesia (8.5%) and Hong Kong (7.9%). The rest of the world exported 40.6 times what Australia buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 19.9% of what the world exports of coal; next come Russia (12.6%), United States (10.6%) and Mongolia (4.7%). The rest of the world exported 4,288.6 times what Australia buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 15.2% of what the world exports of coal tar; next come Poland (16.6%), United States (9.5%) and Turkey (9.3%). The rest of the world exported 42.1 times what Australia buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 1.4% of what the world exports of mixed alkylbenzenes; next come Saudi Arabia (21.9%), United States (9.7%) and Canada (8.6%). The rest of the world exported 246.2 times what Australia buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 18.9% of what the world exports of natural rubber; next come Thailand (30.7%), Côte d'Ivoire (16.1%) and Vietnam (7.5%). The rest of the world exported 2,725 times what Australia buys from Indonesia.

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

Australia is Indonesia’s 12th-largest customer, with 1.8% of its exports.

• Trade between Australia and Indonesia
• Who does Australia rely on?
• Who does Indonesia rely on?
• Dependence of Australia on China
• Dependence of Australia on the United States
• Dependence of Australia on Thailand
• Dependence of Australia on New Zealand
• Dependence of Australia on Switzerland
• Trade profile of Australia
• Trade profile of Indonesia
• 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.