How dependent is India on the United Arab Emirates?

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%.

• The United Arab Emirates sells 6.9% of what the world exports of silver; next come China (16.7%), Mexico (10.1%) and South Korea (7.4%). The rest of the world exported 14.3 times what India buys from the United Arab Emirates.
• The United Arab Emirates sells 3.8% of what the world exports of platinum; next come South Africa (37.2%), Russia (8.7%) and Germany (6.8%). The rest of the world exported 25.3 times what India buys from the United Arab Emirates.
• The United Arab Emirates sells 47.1% of what the world exports of limestone for lime and cement; next come Japan (9.7%), Oman (8.1%) and Belgium (6.4%). The rest of the world exported 1.2 times what India buys from the United Arab Emirates.
• The United Arab Emirates sells 3.2% of what the world exports of warships and other vessels; next come Saudi Arabia (38.4%), Norway (7.6%) and China (6.1%). The rest of the world exported 33.8 times what India buys from the United Arab Emirates.
• The United Arab Emirates sells 4.4% of what the world exports of rapeseed and mustard oil; next come Canada (36.8%), Germany (10.9%) and Russia (9.8%). The rest of the world exported 1,921.3 times what India buys from the United Arab Emirates.

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

India is the United Arab Emirates’ 1st-largest customer, with 17.9% of its exports.

• Trade between India and the United Arab Emirates
• Who does India rely on?
• Who does the United Arab Emirates rely on?
• Dependence of India on China
• Dependence of India on Indonesia
• Dependence of India on the United States
• Dependence of India on Japan
• Dependence of India on Argentina
• Dependence of India on Russia
• Dependence of India on Brazil
• Dependence of India on Zambia
• Dependence of India on South Korea
• Dependence of India on South Africa
• Dependence of India on Vietnam
• Dependence of India on Bangladesh
• Dependence of India on Thailand
• Trade profile of India
• Trade profile of the United Arab Emirates
• 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.