How dependent is Japan on Indonesia?

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%.

• Indonesia sells 15.7% of what the world exports of precious metal scrap; next come United States (22.2%), Belgium (5.5%) and United Kingdom (4.8%). The rest of the world exported 12.2 times what Japan buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 54.8% of what the world exports of nickel matte; next come Canada (10.1%), Zimbabwe (7%) and Russia (6%). The rest of the world exported 6 times what Japan buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 18.9% of what the world exports of natural rubber; next come Thailand (30.7%), Côte d'Ivoire (16.1%) and Vietnam (7.5%). The rest of the world exported 21.8 times what Japan buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 6.8% of what the world exports of cigarettes and cigars; next come Poland (21.3%), Germany (7.4%) and Czechia (5.7%). The rest of the world exported 52.1 times what Japan buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 26.7% 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 3.2 times what Japan buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 15.9% of what the world exports of writing and printing paper; next come Portugal (9.3%), China (8.4%) and Germany (6.9%). The rest of the world exported 36.9 times what Japan buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 18.2% of what the world exports of meal from other oilseeds; next come Canada (19.1%), Ukraine (10.2%) and Russia (6.6%). The rest of the world exported 32 times what Japan buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 0.44% of what the world exports of rayon fabric; next come China (68.6%), Turkey (8.1%) and Italy (6.2%). The rest of the world exported 395.2 times what Japan buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 18% of what the world exports of artificial staple fiber yarn; next come China (42.6%), India (8.9%) and Vietnam (5.3%). The rest of the world exported 94.9 times what Japan buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 0.95% of what the world exports of blended synthetic fabric; next come China (50.1%), Italy (8.4%) and Pakistan (5.5%). The rest of the world exported 344.3 times what Japan buys from Indonesia.

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

Japan is Indonesia’s 4th-largest customer, with 7.4% of its exports.

• Trade between Japan and Indonesia
• Who does Japan rely on?
• Who does Indonesia rely on?
• Dependence of Japan on China
• Dependence of Japan on Australia
• Dependence of Japan on the United States
• Dependence of Japan on Taiwan
• 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 Indonesia
• 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.