Summary
- Share of its imports
- 1%
- Value imported
- $21.6billion
- Rank among its suppliers
- 25th
- Products where it sells over 50%
- 1
- Products where it sells over 75%
- 1
- Dominated value
- $3billion
- Share of total imports
- 0.1%
Trend
Trend in shares
The Democratic Republic of the Congo went from 0% to 1% of what China buys
Share (%)
- Democratic Republic of the Congo 1%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Value (USD millions) | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 1 | 0% | 119 |
| 1996 | 2 | 0% | 117 |
| 1997 | 2 | 0% | 116 |
| 1998 | 2 | 0% | 112 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0% | 130 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0% | 138 |
| 2001 | 8 | 0% | 108 |
| 2002 | 12 | 0% | 109 |
| 2003 | 26 | 0.01% | 104 |
| 2004 | 100 | 0.02% | 91 |
| 2005 | 176 | 0.03% | 83 |
| 2006 | 369 | 0.06% | 72 |
| 2007 | 460 | 0.06% | 71 |
| 2008 | 1,584 | 0.16% | 54 |
| 2009 | 1,136 | 0.13% | 59 |
| 2010 | 2,506 | 0.21% | 55 |
| 2011 | 3,162 | 0.22% | 52 |
| 2012 | 3,527 | 0.24% | 48 |
| 2013 | 2,746 | 0.17% | 59 |
| 2014 | 2,812 | 0.18% | 59 |
| 2015 | 2,636 | 0.2% | 52 |
| 2016 | 2,303 | 0.18% | 57 |
| 2017 | 3,962 | 0.25% | 49 |
| 2018 | 7,761 | 0.44% | 39 |
| 2019 | 5,894 | 0.34% | 47 |
| 2020 | 9,270 | 0.54% | 37 |
| 2021 | 14,901 | 0.68% | 34 |
| 2022 | 16,206 | 0.71% | 33 |
| 2023 | 16,586 | 0.76% | 34 |
| 2024 | 21,593 | 1% | 25 |
Products where the Democratic Republic of the Congo sells more than half
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cobalt | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 92.3%over 75% | Philippines · 1.3% | $3 billion |
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?
- The Democratic Republic of the Congo sells 54.4% of what the world exports of cobalt; next come United States (8%), Canada (5.3%) and United Kingdom (3.5%). The rest of the world exported 0.8 times what China buys from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.
Seen from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
China is the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s 1st-largest customer, with 73% of its exports.
Links
- Trade between China and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Who does China rely on?
- Who does the Democratic Republic of the Congo rely on?
- Dependence of China on Australia
- Dependence of China on Brazil
- Dependence of China on Indonesia
- Dependence of China on Vietnam
- Dependence of China on the United States
- Dependence of China on Guinea
- Dependence of China on Japan
- Dependence of China on South Africa
- Dependence of China on Chile
- Dependence of China on New Zealand
- Dependence of China on Thailand
- Dependence of China on South Korea
- Dependence of China on Canada
- Dependence of China on Russia
- Dependence of China on Switzerland
- Dependence of China on India
- Dependence of China on Germany
- Dependence of China on Kazakhstan
- Dependence of China on the Philippines
- Dependence of China on France
- Dependence of China on Denmark
- Dependence of China on Namibia
- Dependence of China on Myanmar
- Dependence of China on Malaysia
- Trade profile of China
- Trade profile of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- All countries
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.