Summary
- Largest supplier: China
- 26.5%
- Concentration (HHI)
- 1,317
- Products with a supplier above 50%
- 168
- Products with a supplier above 75%
- 74
Concentration index (HHI): 1,317 out of 10,000; equivalent to splitting purchases among 8 suppliers of the same size
Trend
Trend in shares
China went from 0.37% to 26.5% of what Gabon buys
Share (%)
- China 26.5%
- France 22.2%
- United States 5.3%
- Belgium 4.1%
- Turkey 3.5%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Largest supplier | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | France | 48% |
| 1996 | France | 39.4% |
| 1997 | France | 33.4% |
| 1998 | France | 39.9% |
| 1999 | France | 43.4% |
| 2000 | France | 42.1% |
| 2001 | France | 37.2% |
| 2002 | France | 43.2% |
| 2003 | France | 33.1% |
| 2004 | France | 34.3% |
| 2005 | France | 34.6% |
| 2006 | France | 35.3% |
| 2007 | France | 27% |
| 2008 | France | 28.3% |
| 2009 | France | 26.7% |
| 2010 | France | 24.7% |
| 2011 | France | 25.3% |
| 2012 | France | 19.2% |
| 2013 | France | 12.8% |
| 2014 | United States | 16.3% |
| 2015 | United States | 15.9% |
| 2016 | South Korea | 18.7% |
| 2017 | United States | 23.4% |
| 2018 | France | 14.7% |
| 2019 | France | 12.5% |
| 2020 | France | 12.5% |
| 2021 | France | 13.3% |
| 2022 | France | 13.2% |
| 2023 | France | 13.7% |
| 2024 | China | 26.5% |
Its suppliers
Some of these goods may have been produced in another country: countries record origin in different ways.
Products with a dominant supplier
Of the 305 products Gabon buys for more than $1 million in 2024, these are the highest-value ones with a dominant supplier.
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medicines in measured doses or retail packs | France | 91.1%over 75% | India · 5.1% | $60 million |
| Airplanes and helicopters | France | 99.9%over 75% | Portugal · 0.03% | $37 million |
| Bulldozers and excavators | China | 60.1% | Togo · 15.4% | $35 million |
| Seamless steel pipes | China | 57.7% | Indonesia · 13.4% | $34 million |
| Rice | Cambodia | 72.4% | Thailand · 24.1% | $34 million |
| Prepared fish and caviar | Morocco | 51.9% | China · 44.6% | $30 million |
| Frozen beef | India | 56% | Brazil · 36% | $26 million |
| Wheat | France | 87.2%over 75% | Lithuania · 10.4% | $26 million |
| New tires | China | 70.2% | Spain · 8% | $23 million |
| Steel bars | China | 55.3% | Turkey · 40.3% | $23 million |
| Transformers and power supplies | France | 52.1% | China · 20.8% | $22 million |
| Welded steel pipes | Turkey | 66.9% | China · 18.6% | $21 million |
| Furniture | China | 58.2% | Italy · 9.3% | $20 million |
| Wine | France | 84.8%over 75% | Spain · 9.3% | $20 million |
| Coke | Colombia | 89.7%over 75% | United States · 10.2% | $20 million |
| 3D printers | China | 86.4%over 75% | France · 4.1% | $19 million |
| Other food preparations | France | 64.4% | Netherlands · 11.6% | $19 million |
| Used clothing | Belgium | 65.2% | Turkey · 13.1% | $18 million |
| Water heaters and industrial dryers | France | 62.8% | China · 8.1% | $18 million |
| Lamps and light fittings | China | 72.6% | France · 10.1% | $17 million |
| Powdered and condensed milk | Netherlands | 67% | Malaysia · 13.3% | $17 million |
| Refrigerators, freezers and heat pumps | China | 69.4% | Turkey · 6.2% | $16 million |
| Ceramic building bricks | China | 99.2%over 75% | United States · 0.84% | $16 million |
| Air conditioners | China | 83.5%over 75% | France · 4.8% | $15 million |
| Malt | Belgium | 70.7% | Germany · 12.2% | $14 million |
and 143 more
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%.
Some of these goods may have been produced in another country: countries record origin in different ways.
Selling: who it relies on
- Largest customer: China
- 36.2%
- Concentration (HHI)
- 1,733
Concentration index (HHI): 1,733 out of 10,000; equivalent to splitting sales among 6 customers of the same size
Trend in shares
China went from 4.5% to 36.2% of what Gabon sells
Share (%)
- China 36.2%
- Indonesia 13.1%
- Brazil 9.1%
- Malaysia 7.3%
- India 6.5%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Largest customer | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | United States | 57.2% |
| 1996 | United States | 56.2% |
| 1997 | United States | 60.3% |
| 1998 | United States | 53.2% |
| 1999 | United States | 53.7% |
| 2000 | United States | 59.4% |
| 2001 | United States | 52.4% |
| 2002 | United States | 54% |
| 2003 | United States | 56% |
| 2004 | United States | 57.3% |
| 2005 | United States | 54.5% |
| 2006 | United States | 30.7% |
| 2007 | United States | 34.3% |
| 2008 | United States | 25.1% |
| 2009 | United States | 23% |
| 2010 | United States | 29.1% |
| 2011 | United States | 42% |
| 2012 | Japan | 17.7% |
| 2013 | Trinidad and Tobago | 14.1% |
| 2014 | China | 11.2% |
| 2015 | Equatorial Guinea | 10.3% |
| 2016 | Republic of the Congo | 22.2% |
| 2017 | China | 30.9% |
| 2018 | China | 26.8% |
| 2019 | China | 47.9% |
| 2020 | China | 41.8% |
| 2021 | China | 28.6% |
| 2022 | China | 32.2% |
| 2023 | China | 26.9% |
| 2024 | China | 36.2% |
21 of the 28 products Gabon sells for more than $1 million have a customer buying more than 50% of what Gabon sells of that product; in 12, more than 75%. In those products, sales to each one’s dominant customer add up to 5.3% of what Gabon sells.
| Product | Customer | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sawn wood | China | 74.8% | Belgium · 5.9% | $366 million |
| Palm oil | Spain | 60.1% | India · 17.2% | $100 million |
| Coal tar oils | Germany | 71.2% | Netherlands · 28.8% | $32 million |
| Wooden railway sleepers | Belgium | 78.6%over 75% | Mauritania · 12.2% | $14 million |
| Refined copper | China | 100%over 75% | — | $14 million |
| Coconut and palm kernel oil | Spain | 100%over 75% | — | $12 million |
| Natural rubber | Malaysia | 67.1% | Spain · 13.9% | $8 million |
| Shaped wood and parquet strips | France | 56.9% | Belgium · 16.8% | $6 million |
| Unwrought aluminum | Japan | 50.1% | Malaysia · 35.7% | $5 million |
| Logs | Dominican Republic | 72.4% | United Kingdom · 10.6% | $4 million |
| Collectors' items | United Kingdom | 81.4%over 75% | France · 9.9% | $3 million |
| Bran and milling residues | Mauritania | 56.2% | Morocco · 43.8% | $3 million |
| Ferrous scrap | India | 98.3%over 75% | Netherlands · 1% | $3 million |
| Manganese oxides | United States | 71.4% | India · 27.8% | $2 million |
| Unrefined copper | China | 100%over 75% | — | $2 million |
and 6 more
Concentration compared
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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.