How dependent is Malaysia 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 10% of what the world exports of natural gas and LPG; next come United States (18%), Norway (11%) and Qatar (9.1%). The rest of the world exported 233.1 times what Malaysia buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 9.6% of what the world exports of wheat; next come Russia (16.1%), Canada (13.7%) and United States (11.5%). The rest of the world exported 207.4 times what Malaysia 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 30.7 times what Malaysia buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 11.5% of what the world exports of alkali metals, rare earth metals and mercury; next come China (37.6%), Vietnam (17.8%) and France (9.1%). The rest of the world exported 7.6 times what Malaysia buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 8% of what the world exports of other ores; next come Zimbabwe (21.3%), Canada (19.1%) and Myanmar (9.6%). The rest of the world exported 29.9 times what Malaysia buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 10.9% of what the world exports of fresh beef; next come United States (13.2%), Canada (8.3%) and Netherlands (8.3%). The rest of the world exported 942.3 times what Malaysia buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 4.1% of what the world exports of nickel ore; next come Philippines (39.6%), Zambia (10.8%) and Finland (8.2%). The rest of the world exported 190.5 times what Malaysia 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 564.1 times what Malaysia buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 11.7% of what the world exports of cyanides; next come China (31.9%), United States (14.5%) and South Korea (13.4%). The rest of the world exported 87.1 times what Malaysia buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 4.5% of what the world exports of rolled oats and other processed grains; next come Canada (16.8%), Germany (9.7%) and Chile (6.3%). The rest of the world exported 209.6 times what Malaysia buys from Australia.

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

Malaysia is Australia’s 11th-largest customer, with 2% of its exports.

• Trade between Malaysia and Australia
• Who does Malaysia rely on?
• Who does Australia rely on?
• Dependence of Malaysia on China
• Dependence of Malaysia on Indonesia
• Dependence of Malaysia on Brazil
• Dependence of Malaysia on Thailand
• Dependence of Malaysia on the United States
• Dependence of Malaysia on Argentina
• Dependence of Malaysia on Singapore
• Dependence of Malaysia on Japan
• Dependence of Malaysia on India
• Trade profile of Malaysia
• 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.