Summary
- Share of its imports
- 16.3%
- Value imported
- $713million
- Rank among its suppliers
- 1st
- Products where it sells over 50%
- 6
- Products where it sells over 75%
- 2
- Dominated value
- $581million
- Share of total imports
- 13.3%
Trend
Trend in shares
India went from 1.2% to 16.3% of what Benin buys
Share (%)
- India 16.3%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Value (USD millions) | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 11 | 1.2% | 17 |
| 1996 | 17 | 1.6% | 18 |
| 1997 | 21 | 1.9% | 16 |
| 1998 | 38 | 3.1% | 10 |
| 1999 | 35 | 3.1% | 12 |
| 2000 | 41 | 3.5% | 6 |
| 2001 | 46 | 3.7% | 6 |
| 2002 | 54 | 4% | 6 |
| 2003 | 64 | 4% | 4 |
| 2004 | 40 | 2.4% | 9 |
| 2005 | 77 | 4.1% | 5 |
| 2006 | 120 | 5.6% | 3 |
| 2007 | 161 | 4.9% | 5 |
| 2008 | 151 | 3.8% | 5 |
| 2009 | 152 | 3.9% | 5 |
| 2010 | 194 | 4.1% | 6 |
| 2011 | 296 | 5% | 4 |
| 2012 | 362 | 7.8% | 3 |
| 2013 | 877 | 14.2% | 2 |
| 2014 | 613 | 8.8% | 3 |
| 2015 | 495 | 8.4% | 3 |
| 2016 | 655 | 13.8% | 3 |
| 2017 | 877 | 16.2% | 2 |
| 2018 | 612 | 10.7% | 3 |
| 2019 | 463 | 11.3% | 2 |
| 2020 | 349 | 9.5% | 2 |
| 2021 | 600 | 12.6% | 2 |
| 2022 | 708 | 13.8% | 2 |
| 2023 | 785 | 15.2% | 2 |
| 2024 | 713 | 16.3% | 1 |
Products where India sells more than half
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rice | India | 63.7% | Thailand · 17.1% | $574 million |
| Matches | India | 94.3%over 75% | Indonesia · 4.8% | $3 million |
| Plows, seeders and tillage machinery | India | 68% | China · 27.8% | $2 million |
| Furnishing textiles | India | 65.6% | China · 19.1% | $1 million |
| Antibiotics | India | 79.4%over 75% | China · 8.3% | $948 thousand |
| Synthetic dyes | India | 56.1% | Germany · 13.7% | $707 thousand |
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?
- India sells 29.3% of what the world exports of rice; next come Thailand (17.2%), Vietnam (10.5%) and Pakistan (10.1%). The rest of the world exported 47.8 times what Benin buys from India.
- India sells 29.2% of what the world exports of matches; next come Sweden (14.4%), Kenya (6.4%) and China (6.4%). The rest of the world exported 47.4 times what Benin buys from India.
- India sells 2.3% of what the world exports of plows, seeders and tillage machinery; next come Germany (21.7%), China (11.7%) and Italy (8.3%). The rest of the world exported 5,069.7 times what Benin buys from India.
- India sells 15.6% of what the world exports of furnishing textiles; next come China (43.3%), Turkey (4.7%) and Vietnam (4.4%). The rest of the world exported 3,093.7 times what Benin buys from India.
- India sells 9% of what the world exports of antibiotics; next come China (45.7%), Italy (8.1%) and Switzerland (6.8%). The rest of the world exported 10,844.1 times what Benin buys from India.
- India sells 19.8% of what the world exports of synthetic dyes; next come China (20.7%), Germany (8.1%) and United States (7.8%). The rest of the world exported 14,708.7 times what Benin buys from India.
Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.
Seen from India
Benin is India’s 81st-largest customer, with 0.16% of its exports.
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Sources and method
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.