How dependent is Ethiopia on China?

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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%.

• China sells 38.7% of what the world exports of computers; next come Taiwan (14.2%), Mexico (12.6%) and Vietnam (7%). The rest of the world exported 1,259.7 times what Ethiopia buys from China.
• China sells 20.3% of what the world exports of cables and wire; next come Mexico (11.1%), United States (6%) and Germany (5.3%). The rest of the world exported 806 times what Ethiopia buys from China.
• China sells 46.2% of what the world exports of cameras and broadcast equipment; next come Vietnam (13.1%), Taiwan (4.4%) and India (4.3%). The rest of the world exported 2,736 times what Ethiopia buys from China.
• China sells 34.6% of what the world exports of transformers and power supplies; next come Germany (7%), Mexico (4.5%) and Japan (3.9%). The rest of the world exported 1,089.4 times what Ethiopia buys from China.
• China sells 17% of what the world exports of control panels; next come Germany (11.9%), Mexico (10.9%) and United States (8.5%). The rest of the world exported 1,169 times what Ethiopia buys from China.
• China sells 29.7% of what the world exports of steel structures; next come Germany (8.4%), Poland (4.7%) and Turkey (4.4%). The rest of the world exported 785.4 times what Ethiopia buys from China.
• China sells 42.8% of what the world exports of synthetic filament yarn; next come India (5.1%), Vietnam (5%) and Turkey (4.1%). The rest of the world exported 216.2 times what Ethiopia buys from China.
• China sells 22.8% of what the world exports of new tires; next come Thailand (8%), Japan (6%) and Germany (5.3%). The rest of the world exported 1,667.9 times what Ethiopia buys from China.
• China sells 9.1% of what the world exports of cars; next come Germany (17.4%), Japan (12.3%) and South Korea (7.3%). The rest of the world exported 19,225.2 times what Ethiopia buys from China.
• China sells 23% of what the world exports of elevators, escalators and conveyors; next come Germany (13.5%), Italy (6.5%) and United States (5.9%). The rest of the world exported 736.9 times what Ethiopia buys from China.

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

Ethiopia is China’s 94th-largest customer, with 0.09% of its exports.

• Trade between Ethiopia and China
• Who does Ethiopia rely on?
• Who does China rely on?
• Trade profile of Ethiopia
• Trade profile of China
• 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.