How dependent is Malaysia on India?

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%.

• India sells 9.8% of what the world exports of frozen beef; next come Brazil (27.5%), Australia (15.5%) and United States (12.6%). The rest of the world exported 55.3 times what Malaysia buys from India.
• India sells 17.7% of what the world exports of peanuts; next come Argentina (18.9%), United States (15.4%) and China (10.6%). The rest of the world exported 72.3 times what Malaysia buys from India.
• India sells 54.8% of what the world exports of anise, coriander and cumin seeds; next come Egypt (6.9%), China (6.6%) and Vietnam (3.8%). The rest of the world exported 19.5 times what Malaysia buys from India.
• India sells 17.4% of what the world exports of quartz and quartzite; next come China (18.8%), United States (17.8%) and Brazil (10.9%). The rest of the world exported 54.7 times what Malaysia buys from India.
• India sells 30% of what the world exports of cotton yarn; next come Vietnam (17.8%), Uzbekistan (10.7%) and United States (7.8%). The rest of the world exported 504.1 times what Malaysia buys from India.
• India sells 39.6% of what the world exports of other organic compounds; next come China (11.5%), United States (7.3%) and Italy (5.8%). The rest of the world exported 78.5 times what Malaysia buys from India.
• India sells 11.9% of what the world exports of synthetic yarn for retail sale; next come Turkey (46.8%), China (20.1%) and Egypt (3.2%). The rest of the world exported 267.5 times what Malaysia buys from India.
• India sells 19.7% of what the world exports of color lakes and preparations based on them; next come Peru (25.5%), United States (12.7%) and Germany (10.8%). The rest of the world exported 230.7 times what Malaysia buys from India.
• India sells 2.4% of what the world exports of diesel and other locomotives; next come United States (32.2%), Spain (18.1%) and South Korea (11.1%). The rest of the world exported 1,804.1 times what Malaysia buys from India.

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

Malaysia is India’s 13th-largest customer, with 1.7% of its exports.

• Trade between Malaysia and India
• Who does Malaysia rely on?
• Who does India rely on?
• Dependence of Malaysia on China
• Dependence of Malaysia on Indonesia
• Dependence of Malaysia on Australia
• 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
• Trade profile of Malaysia
• Trade profile of India
• 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.