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How dependent is Belgium on Sweden?

In 2024, Sweden sold $8.3 billion to Belgium, 2.1% of its imports, ranking 12th among its suppliers. Its share was 1.9% in 2019 and 2.6% in 1995. In 5 products it sells more than 50% of what Belgium buys of them (in 5, more than 75%); what Belgium buys from Sweden in those products (dominated value) adds up to $1.3 billion, 0.34% of its imports.

Summary

Share of its imports
2.1%
Value imported
$8.3billion
Rank among its suppliers
12th
Products where it sells over 50%
5
Products where it sells over 75%
5
Dominated value
$1.3billion
Share of total imports
0.3%

Trend

Trend in shares

Sweden went from 2.6% to 2.1% of what Belgium buys

Share (%)

  • Sweden 2.1%

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearValue (USD millions)ShareRank
19953,9862.6%8
19964,1252.6%7
19973,9872.4%8
19984,5702.7%8
19994,1092.4%8
20004,1702.3%9
20014,2082.3%9
20024,3642.1%10
20035,4132.3%10
20046,1112.1%10
20056,1001.9%10
20067,0882%10
20078,5642.1%10
20089,1202%11
20095,6671.6%12
20105,4611.8%11
20116,8141.9%11
20126,4751.9%11
20136,9332%11
20146,7662%10
20155,9852.1%11
20166,3532.1%12
20176,9662.1%12
20186,9461.9%12
20196,5341.9%13
20205,3881.7%14
20216,9211.7%15
20226,4391.4%15
20237,8341.8%14
20248,2642.1%12

Products where Sweden sells more than half

ProductSupplierShareSecondValue
Diesel enginesSweden77.7%over 75%France · 6.8%$718 million
Vehicle bodies and cabsSweden83.9%over 75%France · 8.3%$254 million
Copper oreSweden97.8%over 75%Germany · 0.77%$160 million
Glands, heparin and organ extractsSweden92.9%over 75%United States · 2.6%$159 million
Other oresSweden97.5%over 75%Kazakhstan · 1.4%$31 million

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%.

Are there other suppliers in the world?

  • Sweden sells 6.3% of what the world exports of diesel engines; next come United States (20.5%), Germany (11.9%) and United Kingdom (8.6%). The rest of the world exported 62.4 times what Belgium buys from Sweden.
  • Sweden sells 11% of what the world exports of vehicle bodies and cabs; next come China (18.7%), Germany (9.2%) and France (9%). The rest of the world exported 34.7 times what Belgium buys from Sweden.
  • Sweden sells 0.2% of what the world exports of copper ore; next come Chile (29.2%), Peru (19.8%) and Indonesia (7.9%). The rest of the world exported 646.4 times what Belgium buys from Sweden.
  • Sweden sells 4.5% of what the world exports of glands, heparin and organ extracts; next come China (18.8%), United States (18.4%) and Singapore (12.7%). The rest of the world exported 22 times what Belgium buys from Sweden.
  • Sweden sells 2.7% of what the world exports of other ores; next come Zimbabwe (21.3%), Canada (19.1%) and Myanmar (9.6%). The rest of the world exported 36.3 times what Belgium buys from Sweden.

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

Seen from Sweden

Belgium is Sweden’s 8th-largest customer, with 4.5% of its exports.

Sources and method

Sources and licenses

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.