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How dependent is Malaysia on Brazil?

In 2024, Brazil sold $4.6 billion to Malaysia, 1.6% of its imports, ranking 16th among its suppliers. Its share was 1.2% in 2019 and 0.4% in 1995. In 4 products it sells more than 50% of what Malaysia buys of them (in 0, more than 75%); what Malaysia buys from Brazil in those products (dominated value) adds up to $2.5 billion, 0.82% of its imports.

Summary

Share of its imports
1.6%
Value imported
$4.6billion
Rank among its suppliers
16th
Products where it sells over 50%
4
Products where it sells over 75%
0
Dominated value
$2.5billion
Share of total imports
0.8%

Trend

Trend in shares

Brazil went from 0.4% to 1.6% of what Malaysia buys

Share (%)

  • Brazil 1.6%

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearValue (USD millions)ShareRank
19953070.4%25
19963190.42%27
19974190.53%25
19982080.36%26
19991950.3%29
20001460.19%33
20011940.27%31
20022960.39%27
20032400.3%31
20043440.34%31
20054960.45%27
20066850.55%25
20078330.6%23
20081,0240.68%22
20091,0900.85%20
20101,4840.9%19
20111,5960.84%20
20121,9790.99%18
20131,8660.88%19
20141,8310.86%22
20151,9901.1%17
20161,9941.1%17
20172,4611.2%19
20182,0430.91%19
20192,5711.2%16
20203,3181.7%15
20214,9282.1%13
20223,4891.2%16
20234,1881.6%15
20244,6461.6%16

Products where Brazil sells more than half

ProductSupplierShareSecondValue
Iron oreBrazil72.7%Australia · 11.4%$1.6 billion
Cane and beet sugarBrazil70.5%Thailand · 15.4%$849 million
Glands, heparin and organ extractsBrazil64.1%United States · 15.8%$10 million
Tall oilBrazil58.3%United States · 21.6%$766 thousand

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?

  • Brazil sells 20.8% of what the world exports of iron ore; next come Australia (54.2%), Canada (4.4%) and South Africa (4.1%). The rest of the world exported 82.1 times what Malaysia buys from Brazil.
  • Brazil sells 47.2% of what the world exports of cane and beet sugar; next come Thailand (6.2%), India (4.9%) and France (4%). The rest of the world exported 25.7 times what Malaysia buys from Brazil.
  • Brazil sells 1.7% of what the world exports of glands, heparin and organ extracts; next come China (18.8%), United States (18.4%) and Singapore (12.7%). The rest of the world exported 371.9 times what Malaysia buys from Brazil.
  • Brazil sells 2.1% of what the world exports of tall oil; next come United States (55.6%), Sweden (15.7%) and Finland (5.2%). The rest of the world exported 499.5 times what Malaysia buys from Brazil.

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

Seen from Brazil

Malaysia is Brazil’s 15th-largest customer, with 1.3% of its exports.

Sources and method

Sources and licenses

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.