How dependent is Mauritania on the United Arab Emirates?

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%.

• The United Arab Emirates sells 5.4% of what the world exports of refined petroleum; next come United States (11.7%), Singapore (6.3%) and South Korea (5.9%). The rest of the world exported 1,173.9 times what Mauritania buys from the United Arab Emirates.
• The United Arab Emirates sells 3% of what the world exports of natural gas and LPG; next come United States (18%), Norway (11%) and Australia (10%). The rest of the world exported 10,451.7 times what Mauritania buys from the United Arab Emirates.
• The United Arab Emirates sells 1% of what the world exports of cigarettes and cigars; next come Poland (21.3%), Germany (7.4%) and Indonesia (6.8%). The rest of the world exported 2,546 times what Mauritania buys from the United Arab Emirates.
• The United Arab Emirates sells 0.06% of what the world exports of military weapons; next come South Korea (27.3%), United States (17%) and Poland (17%). The rest of the world exported 2,044.5 times what Mauritania buys from the United Arab Emirates.

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

Mauritania is the United Arab Emirates’ 37th-largest customer, with 0.27% of its exports.

• Who does Mauritania rely on?
• Who does the United Arab Emirates rely on?
• Trade profile of Mauritania
• Trade profile of the United Arab Emirates
• 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.