How dependent is Egypt on Brazil?

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%.

• Brazil sells 19.5% of what the world exports of corn; next come United States (23.9%), Argentina (16.3%) and Ukraine (13.1%). The rest of the world exported 33.7 times what Egypt buys from Brazil.
• Brazil sells 47.2% of what the world exports of cane and beet sugar; next come Thailand (6.2%), India (4.9%) and France (4%). The rest of the world exported 23.6 times what Egypt buys from Brazil.
• Brazil sells 19.9% of what the world exports of raw tobacco; next come Zimbabwe (10.3%), India (9.7%) and United States (7.7%). The rest of the world exported 53 times what Egypt buys from Brazil.
• Brazil sells 26.3% of what the world exports of poultry meat; next come United States (12.9%), Poland (12.7%) and Netherlands (7.5%). The rest of the world exported 369.5 times what Egypt buys from Brazil.
• Brazil sells 5.8% of what the world exports of prepared meat; next come Thailand (14.7%), China (8.7%) and Germany (8.6%). The rest of the world exported 1,229.9 times what Egypt buys from Brazil.
• Brazil sells 16.4% of what the world exports of beef, mutton and goat tallow; next come Australia (21%), United States (9.5%) and Canada (9.1%). The rest of the world exported 241.7 times what Egypt buys from Brazil.

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

Egypt is Brazil’s 19th-largest customer, with 1.1% of its exports.

• Trade between Egypt and Brazil
• Who does Egypt rely on?
• Who does Brazil rely on?
• Dependence of Egypt on China
• Dependence of Egypt on Russia
• Dependence of Egypt on the United States
• Dependence of Egypt on Saudi Arabia
• Dependence of Egypt on the United Arab Emirates
• Dependence of Egypt on India
• Dependence of Egypt on Indonesia
• Dependence of Egypt on the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Trade profile of Egypt
• Trade profile of Brazil
• All countries

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.