Summary
- Share of its imports
- 0.6%
- Value imported
- $7.3billion
- Rank among its suppliers
- 34th
- Products where it sells over 50%
- 1
- Products where it sells over 75%
- 1
- Dominated value
- $1.2billion
- Share of total imports
- 0.1%
Trend
Trend in shares
Bulgaria went from 0.12% to 0.56% of what Germany buys
Share (%)
- Bulgaria 0.56%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Value (USD millions) | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 545 | 0.12% | 56 |
| 1996 | 579 | 0.13% | 56 |
| 1997 | 570 | 0.13% | 56 |
| 1998 | 595 | 0.13% | 50 |
| 1999 | 525 | 0.12% | 57 |
| 2000 | 548 | 0.12% | 56 |
| 2001 | 627 | 0.13% | 55 |
| 2002 | 685 | 0.14% | 54 |
| 2003 | 964 | 0.17% | 52 |
| 2004 | 1,188 | 0.18% | 50 |
| 2005 | 1,330 | 0.18% | 51 |
| 2006 | 1,748 | 0.21% | 50 |
| 2007 | 1,949 | 0.21% | 48 |
| 2008 | 2,129 | 0.2% | 49 |
| 2009 | 1,932 | 0.23% | 43 |
| 2010 | 2,212 | 0.23% | 45 |
| 2011 | 3,371 | 0.29% | 42 |
| 2012 | 2,871 | 0.27% | 44 |
| 2013 | 3,624 | 0.33% | 42 |
| 2014 | 3,615 | 0.32% | 42 |
| 2015 | 3,475 | 0.35% | 40 |
| 2016 | 3,810 | 0.39% | 39 |
| 2017 | 4,493 | 0.41% | 38 |
| 2018 | 5,309 | 0.45% | 37 |
| 2019 | 5,503 | 0.48% | 37 |
| 2020 | 5,627 | 0.51% | 35 |
| 2021 | 6,616 | 0.49% | 35 |
| 2022 | 7,415 | 0.49% | 36 |
| 2023 | 6,957 | 0.49% | 35 |
| 2024 | 7,349 | 0.56% | 34 |
Products where Bulgaria sells more than half
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unrefined copper | Bulgaria | 78.1%over 75% | Sweden · 12.1% | $1.2 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?
- Bulgaria sells 8.5% of what the world exports of unrefined copper; next come Zambia (39.1%), Chile (11.3%) and Sweden (10.9%). The rest of the world exported 14.7 times what Germany buys from Bulgaria.
Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.
Seen from Bulgaria
Germany is Bulgaria’s 1st-largest customer, with 14.4% of its exports.
Links
- Trade between Germany and Bulgaria
- Who does Germany rely on?
- Who does Bulgaria rely on?
- Dependence of Germany on China
- Dependence of Germany on Norway
- Dependence of Germany on the Netherlands
- Dependence of Germany on the United States
- Dependence of Germany on Poland
- Dependence of Germany on Ireland
- Dependence of Germany on Switzerland
- Dependence of Germany on Spain
- Dependence of Germany on Italy
- Dependence of Germany on Denmark
- Trade profile of Germany
- Trade profile of Bulgaria
- All countries
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.