How dependent is Japan 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 Indonesia (19.9%), Russia (12.6%) and United States (10.6%). The rest of the world exported 7.2 times what Japan 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 13.9 times what Japan buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 4% of what the world exports of cane and beet sugar; next come Brazil (47.2%), Thailand (6.2%) and India (4.9%). The rest of the world exported 62.2 times what Japan buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 22.7% of what the world exports of rapeseed (canola); next come Canada (32%), Ukraine (14.7%) and France (6.1%). The rest of the world exported 17.3 times what Japan buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 10.1% of what the world exports of unwrought nickel; next come Canada (11.8%), Norway (11.7%) and Russia (8.9%). The rest of the world exported 23.4 times what Japan buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 20.1% of what the world exports of barley; next come France (15.6%), Russia (10.8%) and Argentina (8.2%). The rest of the world exported 34.8 times what Japan 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 42.3 times what Japan buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 10.5% of what the world exports of natural sand; next come United States (18.4%), Cambodia (8.6%) and Germany (7.2%). The rest of the world exported 35.9 times what Japan buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 8.7% of what the world exports of cereal straw and husks; next come France (22.1%), Spain (13.3%) and Pakistan (11.6%). The rest of the world exported 13.5 times what Japan buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 13.3% of what the world exports of wheat gluten; next come Belgium (18%), China (17.5%) and France (11.5%). The rest of the world exported 48.5 times what Japan buys from Australia.

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

Japan is Australia’s 2nd-largest customer, with 13.6% of its exports.

• Trade between Japan and Australia
• Who does Japan rely on?
• Who does Australia rely on?
• Dependence of Japan on China
• Dependence of Japan on the United States
• Dependence of Japan on Taiwan
• Dependence of Japan on Indonesia
• Dependence of Japan on South Africa
• Dependence of Japan on South Korea
• Dependence of Japan on Switzerland
• Dependence of Japan on the Philippines
• Dependence of Japan on Brazil
• Dependence of Japan on Malaysia
• Dependence of Japan on Thailand
• Trade profile of Japan
• 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.