How dependent is India on Japan?

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%.

• Japan sells 7.7% of what the world exports of refined copper; next come Democratic Republic of the Congo (20.6%), Chile (18.4%) and Kazakhstan (4.5%). The rest of the world exported 45.1 times what India buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 24.7% of what the world exports of precious metal compounds; next come Germany (18.9%), United States (14.4%) and United Kingdom (9.9%). The rest of the world exported 4.6 times what India buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 8.2% of what the world exports of railway track material; next come China (18.1%), Austria (14.7%) and France (8.2%). The rest of the world exported 98.9 times what India buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 26.6% of what the world exports of complete unassembled clock or watch movements; next come Malaysia (32.1%), Singapore (16.9%) and China (8.9%). The rest of the world exported 63.4 times what India buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 7.1% of what the world exports of metallized yarn; next come China (38.9%), United States (11.2%) and Turkey (8.6%). The rest of the world exported 71.6 times what India buys from Japan.

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

India is Japan’s 9th-largest customer, with 2.5% of its exports.

• Trade between India and Japan
• Who does India rely on?
• Who does Japan rely on?
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• Trade profile of India
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• 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.