How dependent is Indonesia on Australia?

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%.

• Australia sells 33.5% of what the world exports of coal; next come Russia (12.6%), United States (10.6%) and Mongolia (4.7%). The rest of the world exported 45.9 times what Indonesia buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 54.2% of what the world exports of iron ore; next come Brazil (20.8%), Canada (4.4%) and South Africa (4.1%). The rest of the world exported 72.9 times what Indonesia buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 7.1% of what the world exports of live cattle; next come Canada (14.8%), France (14.2%) and Mexico (11%). The rest of the world exported 21.1 times what Indonesia buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 15.5% of what the world exports of frozen beef; next come Brazil (27.5%), United States (12.6%) and India (9.8%). The rest of the world exported 90.3 times what Indonesia buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 8.9% of what the world exports of edible offal; next come United States (23.6%), Spain (8.8%) and Canada (6.6%). The rest of the world exported 102.2 times what Indonesia buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 12.2% of what the world exports of salt; next come India (13.2%), Germany (7.7%) and Netherlands (7.7%). The rest of the world exported 50.2 times what Indonesia buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 50.4% of what the world exports of other minerals; next come Zimbabwe (9.9%), Brazil (4.8%) and United States (3.6%). The rest of the world exported 54.3 times what Indonesia buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 10.9% of what the world exports of fresh beef; next come United States (13.2%), Canada (8.3%) and Netherlands (8.3%). The rest of the world exported 659.3 times what Indonesia buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 7% of what the world exports of lead ore; next come Mexico (20.1%), Peru (15.7%) and United States (12.7%). The rest of the world exported 198.7 times what Indonesia buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 42.2% of what the world exports of lamb and goat meat; next come New Zealand (24.4%), United Kingdom (8.7%) and Ireland (4.6%). The rest of the world exported 219.4 times what Indonesia buys from Australia.

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

Indonesia is Australia’s 7th-largest customer, with 2.8% of its exports.

• Trade between Indonesia and Australia
• Who does Indonesia rely on?
• Who does Australia rely on?
• Dependence of Indonesia on China
• Dependence of Indonesia on Singapore
• Dependence of Indonesia on the United States
• Dependence of Indonesia on Brazil
• Dependence of Indonesia on Vietnam
• Dependence of Indonesia on India
• Dependence of Indonesia on South Africa
• Trade profile of Indonesia
• Trade profile of Australia
• 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.