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How dependent is China on Guinea?

In 2024, Guinea sold $7.6 billion to China, 0.35% of its imports, ranking 42nd among its suppliers. Its share was 0.14% in 2019 and 0% in 1995. In 1 product it sells more than 50% of what China buys of them (in 0, more than 75%); what China buys from Guinea in those products (dominated value) adds up to $7.6 billion, 0.35% of its imports.

Summary

Share of its imports
0.4%
Value imported
$7.6billion
Rank among its suppliers
42nd
Products where it sells over 50%
1
Products where it sells over 75%
0
Dominated value
$7.6billion
Share of total imports
0.4%

Trend

Trend in shares

Guinea went from 0% to 0.35% of what China buys

Share (%)

  • Guinea 0.35%

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearValue (USD millions)ShareRank
199520%114
199640%99
1997360.03%74
199810%127
199980.01%100
200000%166
200100%163
2002210.01%98
2003100%127
2004150%132
200550%152
2006100%141
2007940.01%104
2008380%123
200960%155
2010550%123
2011160%154
2012110%161
2013810.01%134
2014470%147
2015430%150
20166520.05%78
20171,4670.09%71
20182,1880.12%66
20192,4560.14%65
20202,4390.14%62
20212,7940.13%65
20224,5300.2%53
20236,4140.29%46
20247,6380.35%42

Products where Guinea sells more than half

ProductSupplierShareSecondValue
Bauxite (aluminum ore)Guinea74.9%Australia · 20.1%$7.6 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?

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

Seen from Guinea

China is Guinea’s 1st-largest customer, with 79.2% 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.