Summary
- Share of its imports
- 15.1%
- Value imported
- $973million
- Rank among its suppliers
- 2nd
- Products where it sells over 50%
- 3
- Products where it sells over 75%
- 0
- Dominated value
- $709million
- Share of total imports
- 11%
Trend
Trend in shares
Namibia went from 0% to 15.1% of what Botswana buys
Share (%)
- Namibia 15.1%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Value (USD millions) | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 0 | 0% | — |
| 1996 | 0 | 0% | — |
| 1997 | 0 | 0% | — |
| 1998 | 0 | 0% | — |
| 1999 | 0 | 0% | — |
| 2000 | 8 | 0.38% | 16 |
| 2001 | 6 | 0.35% | 17 |
| 2002 | 13 | 0.4% | 12 |
| 2003 | 10 | 0.26% | 15 |
| 2004 | 15 | 0.45% | 13 |
| 2005 | 16 | 0.51% | 11 |
| 2006 | 20 | 0.63% | 11 |
| 2007 | 26 | 0.64% | 12 |
| 2008 | 30 | 0.56% | 13 |
| 2009 | 39 | 0.77% | 12 |
| 2010 | 33 | 0.47% | 12 |
| 2011 | 80 | 0.96% | 8 |
| 2012 | 499 | 5.3% | 4 |
| 2013 | 1,089 | 14.8% | 2 |
| 2014 | 1,090 | 11.7% | 2 |
| 2015 | 1,172 | 14.3% | 2 |
| 2016 | 642 | 10.4% | 2 |
| 2017 | 361 | 6.3% | 3 |
| 2018 | 535 | 8% | 3 |
| 2019 | 559 | 8.1% | 2 |
| 2020 | 499 | 7.5% | 3 |
| 2021 | 406 | 5.2% | 4 |
| 2022 | 592 | 7.4% | 2 |
| 2023 | 504 | 7.6% | 2 |
| 2024 | 973 | 15.1% | 2 |
Products where Namibia sells more than half
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamonds | Namibia | 51.3% | South Africa · 15.1% | $701 million |
| Prepared fish and caviar | Namibia | 64.7% | South Africa · 34.8% | $7 million |
| Pork | Namibia | 62% | South Africa · 38% | $965 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?
- Namibia sells 1.5% of what the world exports of diamonds; next come India (23.4%), Belgium (12%) and United Arab Emirates (10.5%). The rest of the world exported 100 times what Botswana buys from Namibia.
- Namibia sells 0.04% of what the world exports of prepared fish and caviar; next come Thailand (16.5%), China (14.6%) and Ecuador (8%). The rest of the world exported 2,905.1 times what Botswana buys from Namibia.
- Namibia sells 0% of what the world exports of pork; next come United States (18%), Spain (16.6%) and Germany (11.1%). The rest of the world exported 38,094 times what Botswana buys from Namibia.
Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.
Seen from Namibia
Botswana is Namibia’s 3rd-largest customer, with 12.3% of its exports.
Links
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.