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How dependent is China on Kazakhstan?

In 2024, Kazakhstan sold $15.1 billion to China, 0.7% of its imports, ranking 34th among its suppliers. Its share was 0.47% in 2019 and 0.23% in 1995. In 2 products it sells more than 50% of what China buys of them (in 0, more than 75%); what China buys from Kazakhstan in those products (dominated value) adds up to $1.9 billion, 0.09% of its imports.

Summary

Share of its imports
0.7%
Value imported
$15.1billion
Rank among its suppliers
34th
Products where it sells over 50%
2
Products where it sells over 75%
0
Dominated value
$1.9billion
Share of total imports
0.1%

Trend

Trend in shares

Kazakhstan went from 0.23% to 0.7% of what China buys

Share (%)

  • Kazakhstan 0.7%

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearValue (USD millions)ShareRank
19953160.23%36
19963650.26%38
19974330.31%36
19984130.31%35
19996440.42%27
20008790.43%33
20017210.32%38
20021,0730.39%34
20031,7100.46%32
20042,1150.44%33
20052,7470.49%33
20063,6470.55%28
20075,8000.7%26
20087,7110.8%25
20095,9550.69%25
201010,0550.86%24
201116,1621.1%21
201216,3331.1%23
201314,6020.92%27
20149,8810.62%33
20155,5760.42%40
20164,3150.34%45
20175,8980.37%42
20186,6490.38%41
20198,1800.47%40
20209,5780.56%36
202110,1760.46%40
202213,4170.59%38
202315,1550.7%36
202415,1480.7%34

Products where Kazakhstan sells more than half

ProductSupplierShareSecondValue
Radioactive elementsKazakhstan50.4%Russia · 24.3%$1.8 billion
Sunflower seedsKazakhstan56.7%Bulgaria · 26.4%$73 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?

  • Kazakhstan sells 18.8% of what the world exports of radioactive elements; next come Canada (17.6%), Russia (11.8%) and France (9.9%). The rest of the world exported 10.9 times what China buys from Kazakhstan.
  • Kazakhstan sells 1.9% of what the world exports of sunflower seeds; next come Romania (13.6%), Bulgaria (11.2%) and France (11.2%). The rest of the world exported 52.5 times what China buys from Kazakhstan.

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

Seen from Kazakhstan

China is Kazakhstan’s 1st-largest customer, with 16.8% 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.