How dependent is Iraq on India?

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%.

• India sells 29.3% of what the world exports of rice; next come Thailand (17.2%), Vietnam (10.5%) and Pakistan (10.1%). The rest of the world exported 29.6 times what Iraq buys from India.
• India sells 5.7% of what the world exports of refined petroleum; next come United States (11.7%), Singapore (6.3%) and South Korea (5.9%). The rest of the world exported 1,822.8 times what Iraq buys from India.
• India sells 9.8% of what the world exports of frozen beef; next come Brazil (27.5%), Australia (15.5%) and United States (12.6%). The rest of the world exported 87.5 times what Iraq buys from India.
• India sells 2.1% of what the world exports of bananas; next come Ecuador (28.3%), Colombia (10.9%) and Costa Rica (10.7%). The rest of the world exported 104.3 times what Iraq buys from India.
• India sells 13.4% of what the world exports of ceramic tiles; next come Italy (22.9%), Spain (18.6%) and China (17.3%). The rest of the world exported 134 times what Iraq buys from India.
• India sells 24.4% of what the world exports of uninsulated aluminum cable; next come China (23.6%), Bahrain (11.2%) and Turkey (5.9%). The rest of the world exported 29.3 times what Iraq buys from India.
• India sells 6.4% of what the world exports of ferroalloys; next come Indonesia (30.3%), South Africa (11.5%) and Brazil (9.1%). The rest of the world exported 1,954.8 times what Iraq buys from India.
• India sells 17.7% of what the world exports of peanuts; next come Argentina (18.9%), United States (15.4%) and China (10.6%). The rest of the world exported 369.6 times what Iraq buys from India.
• India sells 17.8% of what the world exports of ginger, saffron, turmeric and other spices; next come China (21.7%), Germany (4.2%) and Netherlands (4.1%). The rest of the world exported 327.1 times what Iraq buys from India.
• India sells 19.5% of what the world exports of nutmeg, mace and cardamom; next come Guatemala (41.9%), Indonesia (18.7%) and Nepal (4.9%). The rest of the world exported 120.9 times what Iraq buys from India.

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

Iraq is India’s 35th-largest customer, with 0.71% of its exports.

• Trade between Iraq and India
• Who does Iraq rely on?
• Who does India rely on?
• Dependence of Iraq on China
• Dependence of Iraq on Turkey
• Dependence of Iraq on Brazil
• Dependence of Iraq on Saudi Arabia
• Trade profile of Iraq
• Trade profile of India
• 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.