How dependent is Indonesia on South Africa?

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%.

• South Africa sells 83.8% of what the world exports of chromium ore; next come Turkey (4.8%), Zimbabwe (4.2%) and Pakistan (1.5%). The rest of the world exported 2.5 times what Indonesia buys from South Africa.
• South Africa sells 50.5% of what the world exports of manganese ore; next come Gabon (25.8%), Ghana (8.5%) and Australia (7.7%). The rest of the world exported 72.9 times what Indonesia buys from South Africa.
• South Africa sells 0.78% of what the world exports of cotton linters and other plant products; next come India (10.5%), Sri Lanka (7.9%) and Malaysia (7.5%). The rest of the world exported 451.4 times what Indonesia buys from South Africa.
• South Africa sells 0.76% of what the world exports of propellant powders; next come Canada (16.7%), United States (16.4%) and Slovakia (8%). The rest of the world exported 606.3 times what Indonesia buys from South Africa.

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

Indonesia is South Africa’s 20th-largest customer, with 1.1% of its exports.

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