How dependent is the Maldives 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 3.1% of what the world exports of cargo and cruise ships; next come China (31%), South Korea (29.6%) and Japan (10.9%). The rest of the world exported 275.5 times what the Maldives buys from India.
• India sells 35.8% of what the world exports of granite and building stone; next come Brazil (10.2%), Norway (9.1%) and Cambodia (4.4%). The rest of the world exported 22.3 times what the Maldives buys from India.
• India sells 0.46% of what the world exports of steel bars; next come Turkey (11.5%), China (10.8%) and Malaysia (10.3%). The rest of the world exported 539 times what the Maldives buys from India.
• India sells 29.3% of what the world exports of rice; next come Thailand (17.2%), Vietnam (10.5%) and Pakistan (10.1%). The rest of the world exported 1,091.6 times what the Maldives buys from India.
• India sells 5.4% of what the world exports of medicines in measured doses or retail packs; next come Germany (13.2%), Switzerland (9%) and Italy (8.6%). The rest of the world exported 19,742.4 times what the Maldives buys from India.
• India sells 1.9% of what the world exports of eggs in shell; next come Netherlands (17.5%), United States (10.4%) and Turkey (8.1%). The rest of the world exported 299.6 times what the Maldives buys from India.
• India sells 2.1% of what the world exports of coated flat steel; next come China (27.6%), South Korea (10.3%) and Germany (7.2%). The rest of the world exported 4,964.4 times what the Maldives buys from India.
• India sells 4.8% of what the world exports of onions and garlic; next come China (39.5%), Netherlands (10.7%) and Spain (7.9%). The rest of the world exported 1,039.7 times what the Maldives buys from India.
• India sells 1.5% of what the world exports of polyethers, polyesters and epoxy resins; next come China (19.4%), United States (8.8%) and Germany (8.8%). The rest of the world exported 10,360.3 times what the Maldives buys from India.
• India sells 0.74% of what the world exports of cranes; next come China (34.4%), Germany (12.3%) and Japan (8.2%). The rest of the world exported 3,323 times what the Maldives buys from India.

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

The Maldives is India’s 66th-largest customer, with 0.2% of its exports.

• Who does the Maldives rely on?
• Who does India rely on?
• Trade profile of the Maldives
• 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.