How dependent is Madagascar on China?

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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%.

• China sells 50.6% of what the world exports of other knitted fabric; next come Taiwan (6.3%), Turkey (5.8%) and South Korea (5.5%). The rest of the world exported 174.5 times what Madagascar buys from China.
• China sells 61.9% of what the world exports of synthetic filament fabric; next come Taiwan (4.8%), South Korea (4.5%) and India (3.3%). The rest of the world exported 161.4 times what Madagascar buys from China.
• China sells 13.3% of what the world exports of used clothing; next come United States (17.9%), United Kingdom (9.3%) and Germany (7%). The rest of the world exported 67.4 times what Madagascar buys from China.
• China sells 39.2% of what the world exports of diodes, transistors and solar cells; next come Malaysia (8.6%), Japan (7.4%) and Vietnam (5.9%). The rest of the world exported 1,738.3 times what Madagascar buys from China.
• China sells 27.6% of what the world exports of coated flat steel; next come South Korea (10.3%), Germany (7.2%) and Belgium (4.8%). The rest of the world exported 972.1 times what Madagascar buys from China.
• China sells 60.9% of what the world exports of heavy blended cotton fabric; next come Pakistan (5.5%), India (5.2%) and Italy (4.7%). The rest of the world exported 44.7 times what Madagascar buys from China.
• China sells 46.2% of what the world exports of cameras and broadcast equipment; next come Vietnam (13.1%), Taiwan (4.4%) and India (4.3%). The rest of the world exported 13,312.7 times what Madagascar buys from China.
• China sells 22.8% of what the world exports of new tires; next come Thailand (8%), Japan (6%) and Germany (5.3%). The rest of the world exported 3,060.4 times what Madagascar buys from China.
• China sells 50.8% of what the world exports of batteries; next come South Korea (6.1%), United States (5.4%) and Poland (5.4%). The rest of the world exported 3,386.8 times what Madagascar buys from China.
• China sells 36.3% of what the world exports of heavy cotton fabric; next come Pakistan (14.3%), India (8.6%) and Turkey (8.5%). The rest of the world exported 204.2 times what Madagascar buys from China.

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

Madagascar is China’s 124th-largest customer, with 0.04% of its exports.

• Trade between Madagascar and China
• Who does Madagascar rely on?
• Who does China rely on?
• Dependence of Madagascar on Oman
• Trade profile of Madagascar
• Trade profile of China
• 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.