Summary
- Share of its imports
- 29.1%
- Value imported
- $18.2billion
- Rank among its suppliers
- 1st
- Products where it sells over 50%
- 232
- Products where it sells over 75%
- 104
- Dominated value
- $11.6billion
- Share of total imports
- 18.5%
Trend
Trend in shares
Russia went from 0% to 29.1% of what Kazakhstan buys
Share (%)
- Russia 29.1%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Value (USD millions) | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 0 | 0% | — |
| 1996 | 2,389 | 60.6% | 1 |
| 1997 | 2,073 | 52.3% | 1 |
| 1998 | 1,775 | 34.4% | 1 |
| 1999 | 1,226 | 35.8% | 1 |
| 2000 | 2,185 | 45.4% | 1 |
| 2001 | 2,698 | 41.2% | 1 |
| 2002 | 2,486 | 34.6% | 1 |
| 2003 | 3,332 | 36.7% | 1 |
| 2004 | 4,774 | 34.8% | 1 |
| 2005 | 6,575 | 36.1% | 1 |
| 2006 | 9,008 | 36.6% | 1 |
| 2007 | 11,636 | 34.1% | 1 |
| 2008 | 13,441 | 35.4% | 1 |
| 2009 | 8,798 | 30.8% | 1 |
| 2010 | 5,472 | 21.7% | 1 |
| 2011 | 16,231 | 40.9% | 1 |
| 2012 | 16,099 | 36.1% | 1 |
| 2013 | 17,663 | 34.9% | 1 |
| 2014 | 13,985 | 32.5% | 1 |
| 2015 | 10,703 | 33.1% | 1 |
| 2016 | 9,978 | 35.9% | 1 |
| 2017 | 12,562 | 38.8% | 1 |
| 2018 | 13,203 | 37.2% | 1 |
| 2019 | 14,176 | 34.4% | 1 |
| 2020 | 13,824 | 37.2% | 1 |
| 2021 | 17,855 | 40.8% | 1 |
| 2022 | 17,331 | 31.9% | 1 |
| 2023 | 16,140 | 24.9% | 2 |
| 2024 | 18,236 | 29.1% | 1 |
Products where Russia sells more than half
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Natural gas and LPG | Russia | 80.7%over 75% | Turkmenistan · 19.3% | $623 million |
| Gold | Russia | 100%over 75% | United Kingdom · 0% | $541 million |
| Radioactive elements | Russia | 86.5%over 75% | China · 11.6% | $478 million |
| Semi-finished steel | Russia | 99.8%over 75% | China · 0.15% | $411 million |
| Unrefined copper | Russia | 100%over 75% | United Kingdom · 0.01% | $385 million |
| Wheat | Russia | 99.6%over 75% | China · 0.27% | $380 million |
| Refined petroleum | Russia | 56.2% | Turkey · 7.5% | $339 million |
| Steel bars | Russia | 89%over 75% | Kyrgyzstan · 9.9% | $301 million |
| Electricity | Russia | 97.5%over 75% | Uzbekistan · 2.4% | $295 million |
| Cane and beet sugar | Russia | 80.1%over 75% | Brazil · 14.5% | $277 million |
| Railway freight cars | Russia | 90.2%over 75% | Uzbekistan · 5.3% | $269 million |
| Bed, table and kitchen linen | Russia | 66.8% | China · 26.9% | $251 million |
| Bread, biscuits and pastries | Russia | 70.9% | Kyrgyzstan · 5.6% | $242 million |
| Welded steel pipes | Russia | 92.2%over 75% | China · 3.3% | $230 million |
| Steel angles and sections | Russia | 91.3%over 75% | China · 4.7% | $225 million |
| Steel structures | Russia | 53.3% | China · 22.6% | $222 million |
| Other knitted garments | Russia | 97.2%over 75% | Malaysia · 0.65% | $219 million |
| Chocolate | Russia | 55.2% | Ukraine · 12.6% | $211 million |
| Large-diameter steel pipes | Russia | 95.9%over 75% | China · 2.7% | $209 million |
| Petroleum coke and bitumen | Russia | 88.6%over 75% | Kyrgyzstan · 10.9% | $197 million |
| Hot-rolled flat steel | Russia | 96.8%over 75% | China · 1.6% | $185 million |
| Detergents and surfactants | Russia | 52.6% | Turkey · 8.9% | $161 million |
| Polyethylene | Russia | 61.2% | Iran · 11.4% | $157 million |
| Zinc ore | Russia | 69.6% | Tajikistan · 30.4% | $157 million |
| Coal | Russia | 99.2%over 75% | United Kingdom · 0.65% | $146 million |
| Particle board and OSB | Russia | 81.7%over 75% | Belarus · 17% | $141 million |
| Coke | Russia | 86.5%over 75% | China · 10.9% | $140 million |
| Toilet paper and tissues | Russia | 51.6% | China · 27.6% | $110 million |
| Soft drinks | Russia | 52% | Georgia · 7.5% | $110 million |
| Passenger rail coaches | Russia | 96.9%over 75% | Uzbekistan · 3.1% | $108 million |
and 202 more
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%.
Are there other suppliers in the world?
- Russia sells 8.3% of what the world exports of natural gas and LPG; next come United States (18%), Norway (11%) and Australia (10%). The rest of the world exported 720.4 times what Kazakhstan buys from Russia.
- Russia sells 2.2% of what the world exports of gold; next come Switzerland (19.2%), United Arab Emirates (10.6%) and Hong Kong (6.4%). The rest of the world exported 984.7 times what Kazakhstan buys from Russia.
- Russia sells 11.8% of what the world exports of radioactive elements; next come Canada (17.6%), France (9.9%) and United Kingdom (9.1%). The rest of the world exported 36.4 times what Kazakhstan buys from Russia.
- Russia sells 19.8% of what the world exports of semi-finished steel; next come Brazil (11.9%), China (10.7%) and Indonesia (7.8%). The rest of the world exported 55.6 times what Kazakhstan buys from Russia.
- Russia sells 2% of what the world exports of unrefined copper; next come Zambia (39.1%), Chile (11.3%) and Sweden (10.9%). The rest of the world exported 48.4 times what Kazakhstan buys from Russia.
- Russia sells 16.1% of what the world exports of wheat; next come Canada (13.7%), United States (11.5%) and Australia (9.6%). The rest of the world exported 123.1 times what Kazakhstan buys from Russia.
- Russia sells 5.3% 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 2,393.3 times what Kazakhstan buys from Russia.
- Russia sells 4.3% of what the world exports of steel bars; next come Turkey (11.5%), China (10.8%) and Malaysia (10.3%). The rest of the world exported 57.6 times what Kazakhstan buys from Russia.
- Russia sells 0.62% of what the world exports of electricity; next come France (14%), Germany (6.8%) and Switzerland (6.1%). The rest of the world exported 211.8 times what Kazakhstan buys from Russia.
- Russia sells 1.3% 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 148.2 times what Kazakhstan buys from Russia.
Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.
Seen from Russia
Kazakhstan is Russia’s 4th-largest customer, with 4.8% of its exports.
Links
Sources and method
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.