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How dependent is Bulgaria on Ukraine?

In 2024, Ukraine sold $1.3 billion to Bulgaria, 2.4% of its imports, ranking 10th among its suppliers. Its share was 1.6% in 2019 and 0% in 1995. In 5 products it sells more than 50% of what Bulgaria buys of them (in 2, more than 75%); what Bulgaria buys from Ukraine in those products (dominated value) adds up to $754 million, 1.4% of its imports.

Summary

Share of its imports
2.4%
Share of its imports from outside the EU
4.4%
Value imported
$1.3billion
Rank among its suppliers
10th
Products where it sells over 50%
5
Products where it sells over 75%
2
Dominated value
$754million
Share of total imports
1.4%

Trend

Trend in shares

Ukraine went from 0% to 2.4% of what Bulgaria buys

Share (%)

  • Ukraine 2.4%

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearValue (USD millions)ShareRank
199500%—
19961542.8%6
19971953.4%5
19982514.4%5
19991853.1%8
20002795.1%6
20012614.3%7
20022773.9%7
20033263.3%7
20046034.4%7
20057064.1%9
20067713.5%9
20077102.4%9
20081,2463.3%9
20094982.1%14
20101,0554.1%7
20111,2643.8%8
20127942.3%13
20137632.1%14
20146982%15
20155171.8%16
20164721.6%17
20175391.5%18
20185641.5%18
20196121.6%18
20206631.9%15
20219912.2%14
20221,7863.2%10
20231,1012.1%16
20241,2632.4%10

Products where Ukraine sells more than half

ProductSupplierShareSecondValue
Semi-finished steelUkraine94.2%over 75%Greece · 4%$262 million
Sunflower, safflower and cottonseed oilUkraine69.9%Romania · 15.2%$259 million
Hot-rolled flat steelUkraine57.1%Romania · 8.1%$209 million
Fuses, detonators and capsUkraine86.3%over 75%Bosnia and Herzegovina · 6%$23 million
FlaxseedUkraine69.8%Poland · 6.5%$1 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?

  • Ukraine sells 3.3% of what the world exports of semi-finished steel; next come Russia (19.8%), Brazil (11.9%) and China (10.7%). The rest of the world exported 107.7 times what Bulgaria buys from Ukraine.
  • Ukraine sells 29.5% of what the world exports of sunflower, safflower and cottonseed oil; next come Russia (24.1%), Turkey (7%) and Netherlands (5.9%). The rest of the world exported 48.1 times what Bulgaria buys from Ukraine.
  • Ukraine sells 1.2% of what the world exports of hot-rolled flat steel; next come China (28.1%), Japan (13.9%) and South Korea (9%). The rest of the world exported 317.6 times what Bulgaria buys from Ukraine.
  • Ukraine sells 1% of what the world exports of fuses, detonators and caps; next come United States (12.9%), Czechia (10.7%) and France (9.6%). The rest of the world exported 99 times what Bulgaria buys from Ukraine.
  • Ukraine sells 3.6% of what the world exports of flaxseed; next come Russia (38.9%), Kazakhstan (20.1%) and Canada (12.9%). The rest of the world exported 979.4 times what Bulgaria buys from Ukraine.

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

Seen from Ukraine

Bulgaria is Ukraine’s 10th-largest customer, with 2.7% 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.