How dependent is Kenya on the United Arab Emirates?

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%.

• The United Arab Emirates sells 5.4% 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 375.1 times what Kenya buys from the United Arab Emirates.
• The United Arab Emirates sells 8.3% of what the world exports of copper wire; next come Germany (12.4%), Belgium (7.2%) and Spain (6.7%). The rest of the world exported 523.8 times what Kenya buys from the United Arab Emirates.
• The United Arab Emirates sells 2.6% of what the world exports of aluminum wire; next come Canada (11.8%), Bahrain (11.3%) and India (8.6%). The rest of the world exported 823.6 times what Kenya buys from the United Arab Emirates.
• The United Arab Emirates sells 1.4% of what the world exports of hat linings and fittings; next come China (35%), United States (11.3%) and Mexico (6.3%). The rest of the world exported 71.3 times what Kenya buys from the United Arab Emirates.
• The United Arab Emirates sells 0.15% of what the world exports of hydrogen and rare gases; next come China (17.1%), United States (14.4%) and Germany (12.1%). The rest of the world exported 5,845.5 times what Kenya buys from the United Arab Emirates.
• The United Arab Emirates sells 2% of what the world exports of aluminum scrap; next come United States (15.6%), Germany (9.2%) and Canada (5.5%). The rest of the world exported 18,101.4 times what Kenya buys from the United Arab Emirates.
• The United Arab Emirates sells 0.42% of what the world exports of knotted carpets; next come India (40.7%), Nepal (9.5%) and Turkey (7.9%). The rest of the world exported 1,513.6 times what Kenya buys from the United Arab Emirates.

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

Kenya is the United Arab Emirates’ 21st-largest customer, with 0.81% of its exports.

• Trade between Kenya and the United Arab Emirates
• Who does Kenya rely on?
• Who does the United Arab Emirates rely on?
• Dependence of Kenya on China
• Dependence of Kenya on Malaysia
• Trade profile of Kenya
• Trade profile of the United Arab Emirates
• 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.