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How dependent is Guyana on the United States?

In 2024, the United States sold $2.4 billion to Guyana, 32.6% of its imports, ranking 1st among its suppliers. Its share was 24.3% in 2019 and 36.6% in 1995. In 80 products it sells more than 50% of what Guyana buys of them (in 21, more than 75%); what Guyana buys from the United States in those products (dominated value) adds up to $1.6 billion, 21% of its imports.

Summary

Share of its imports
32.6%
Value imported
$2.4billion
Rank among its suppliers
1st
Products where it sells over 50%
80
Products where it sells over 75%
21
Dominated value
$1.6billion
Share of total imports
21%

Trend

Trend in shares

The United States went from 36.6% to 32.6% of what Guyana buys

Share (%)

  • United States 32.6%

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearValue (USD millions)ShareRank
199513236.6%1
199612731%1
199724332.8%1
199823234.2%1
199921237.3%1
200023536.2%1
200122634.1%1
200221231%1
200318726.1%1
200420727.5%1
200525328.3%2
200625223%2
200726923.4%1
200838323.6%1
200935225.1%1
201041723.4%1
201146021%1
201247621.2%1
201342418.7%1
201444222.3%1
201540624.5%1
201646826.8%1
201750425.8%1
201868526.9%2
20191,01424.3%1
202074728.9%1
202173414.9%3
202293723%1
20231,58728.7%1
20242,40932.6%1

Products where the United States sells more than half

ProductSupplierShareSecondValue
Refined petroleumUnited States54.4%Trinidad and Tobago · 13.4%$557 million
Parts for cranes and excavatorsUnited States56%Brazil · 15.8%$135 million
Centrifuges and filtersUnited States81.8%over 75%China · 4.6%$98 million
Other iron or steel articlesUnited States76%over 75%Netherlands · 6.4%$83 million
Other industrial machinesUnited States58.1%Mexico · 8.5%$83 million
Cables and wireUnited States67.3%China · 9.5%$81 million
Airplanes and helicoptersUnited States59.8%Italy · 23.5%$65 million
Large-diameter steel pipesUnited States59.3%Brazil · 32.2%$40 million
Cameras and broadcast equipmentUnited States74.3%China · 10.3%$38 million
Chlorides and bromidesUnited States79.2%over 75%China · 11.1%$29 million
Liquid pumpsUnited States50.5%China · 21.3%$25 million
Aircraft partsUnited States81.9%over 75%United Kingdom · 4.1%$20 million
Flow, level and pressure metersUnited States71.7%United Kingdom · 5.8%$18 million
Industrial fatty acids and oilsUnited States71.2%Trinidad and Tobago · 10.9%$17 million
ComputersUnited States65.2%China · 12.4%$16 million
CornUnited States69.2%France · 14.4%$15 million
Other engines and motorsUnited States71.6%China · 5.9%$14 million
Eggs in shellUnited States60.5%Netherlands · 28.6%$13 million
Surveying instrumentsUnited States58%United Kingdom · 9.6%$13 million
WheatUnited States78%over 75%Canada · 22%$11 million
Oilseed floursUnited States56.1%Brazil · 43.9%$11 million
Printers and printing machinesUnited States78.8%over 75%China · 6.6%$10 million
Replacement tool headsUnited States68.1%China · 13.3%$10 million
Physical and chemical analysis instrumentsUnited States61.9%United Kingdom · 6.3%$8 million
Diagnostic and laboratory reagentsUnited States65.6%China · 7.2%$7 million
Hoists, winches and jacksUnited States50.2%United Kingdom · 20.9%$7 million
Fuel and lubricant additivesUnited States96.5%over 75%Germany · 1.2%$7 million
Other measuring instrumentsUnited States52.8%Netherlands · 20%$6 million
PVC and other vinyl polymersUnited States60.7%Mexico · 26.8%$6 million
Computer and office machine partsUnited States67.3%China · 13.1%$6 million

and 50 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%.

Are there other suppliers in the world?

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

Seen from the United States

Guyana is the United States’ 62nd-largest customer, with 0.13% 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.