How dependent is Bhutan on India?

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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%.

• India sells 5.7% 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 4,316.7 times what Bhutan buys from India.
• India sells 3.8% of what the world exports of airplanes and helicopters; next come United States (25.2%), France (24.9%) and Germany (15.2%). The rest of the world exported 1,891.1 times what Bhutan buys from India.
• India sells 2.4% of what the world exports of wood charcoal; next come Indonesia (21.4%), Laos (6%) and Namibia (5.5%). The rest of the world exported 53.8 times what Bhutan buys from India.
• India sells 0.47% of what the world exports of coke; next come China (21.9%), Poland (17.3%) and Indonesia (14.8%). The rest of the world exported 334 times what Bhutan buys from India.
• India sells 2.3% of what the world exports of transformers and power supplies; next come China (34.6%), Germany (7%) and Mexico (4.5%). The rest of the world exported 6,395.3 times what Bhutan buys from India.
• 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 1,227.5 times what Bhutan buys from India.
• India sells 1.9% of what the world exports of electricity; next come France (14%), Germany (6.8%) and Switzerland (6.1%). The rest of the world exported 2,766.6 times what Bhutan buys from India.
• India sells 10.5% of what the world exports of direct-reduced iron; next come Russia (18.5%), Oman (16.7%) and Trinidad and Tobago (13.4%). The rest of the world exported 222 times what Bhutan buys from India.
• India sells 0.81% of what the world exports of cars; next come Germany (17.4%), Japan (12.3%) and China (9.1%). The rest of the world exported 53,656.3 times what Bhutan buys from India.
• India sells 2.7% of what the world exports of steel structures; next come China (29.7%), Germany (8.4%) and Poland (4.7%). The rest of the world exported 3,835.8 times what Bhutan buys from India.

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

Bhutan is India’s 58th-largest customer, with 0.26% of its exports.

• Trade between Bhutan and India
• Who does Bhutan rely on?
• Who does India rely on?
• Trade profile of Bhutan
• Trade profile of India
• 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.