Summary
- Share of its imports
- 3.1%
- Value imported
- $21.1billion
- Rank among its suppliers
- 7th
- Products where it sells over 50%
- 3
- Products where it sells over 75%
- 0
- Dominated value
- $1.1billion
- Share of total imports
- 0.2%
Trend
Trend in shares
Malaysia went from 2.2% to 3.1% of what Hong Kong buys
Share (%)
- Malaysia 3.1%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Value (USD millions) | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 4,343 | 2.2% | 7 |
| 1996 | 5,276 | 2.7% | 7 |
| 1997 | 5,522 | 2.5% | 8 |
| 1998 | 4,514 | 2.4% | 7 |
| 1999 | 4,076 | 2.3% | 7 |
| 2000 | 5,244 | 2.4% | 7 |
| 2001 | 5,350 | 2.6% | 7 |
| 2002 | 4,280 | 2% | 8 |
| 2003 | 6,087 | 2.5% | 7 |
| 2004 | 6,865 | 2.4% | 7 |
| 2005 | 7,378 | 2.4% | 7 |
| 2006 | 8,375 | 2.4% | 7 |
| 2007 | 8,660 | 2.2% | 9 |
| 2008 | 8,659 | 2.1% | 8 |
| 2009 | 8,980 | 2.5% | 8 |
| 2010 | 11,198 | 2.4% | 8 |
| 2011 | 11,706 | 2.2% | 10 |
| 2012 | 7,911 | 1.4% | 11 |
| 2013 | 10,966 | 1.7% | 11 |
| 2014 | 13,195 | 2.2% | 8 |
| 2015 | 12,272 | 2.1% | 8 |
| 2016 | 11,611 | 2.1% | 9 |
| 2017 | 13,979 | 2.2% | 10 |
| 2018 | 23,725 | 3.7% | 7 |
| 2019 | 19,727 | 3.4% | 7 |
| 2020 | 20,757 | 3.6% | 7 |
| 2021 | 21,021 | 3% | 7 |
| 2022 | 23,176 | 3.5% | 7 |
| 2023 | 19,281 | 3% | 7 |
| 2024 | 21,131 | 3.1% | 7 |
Products where Malaysia sells more than half
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steel bars | Malaysia | 61.3% | China · 25.7% | $1.1 billion |
| Rubber gloves and clothing | Malaysia | 67.6% | China · 22.9% | $26 million |
| Palm oil | Malaysia | 53.1% | China · 38.6% | $6 million |
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?
- Malaysia sells 10.3% of what the world exports of steel bars; next come Turkey (11.5%), China (10.8%) and Italy (6.2%). The rest of the world exported 15.4 times what Hong Kong buys from Malaysia.
- Malaysia sells 36.2% of what the world exports of rubber gloves and clothing; next come China (23%), Thailand (17.4%) and Indonesia (3.8%). The rest of the world exported 232.3 times what Hong Kong buys from Malaysia.
- Malaysia sells 34.1% of what the world exports of palm oil; next come Indonesia (48.7%), Netherlands (2%) and Thailand (1.9%). The rest of the world exported 4,595.2 times what Hong Kong buys from Malaysia.
Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.
Seen from Malaysia
Hong Kong is Malaysia’s 4th-largest customer, with 5.2% of its exports.
Links
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.