How dependent is Mozambique on South Africa?

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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%.

• South Africa sells 83.8% of what the world exports of chromium ore; next come Turkey (4.8%), Zimbabwe (4.2%) and Pakistan (1.5%). The rest of the world exported 0.8 times what Mozambique buys from South Africa.
• South Africa sells 11.5% of what the world exports of ferroalloys; next come Indonesia (30.3%), Brazil (9.1%) and India (6.4%). The rest of the world exported 33.7 times what Mozambique buys from South Africa.
• South Africa sells 4.1% of what the world exports of iron ore; next come Australia (54.2%), Brazil (20.8%) and Canada (4.4%). The rest of the world exported 240 times what Mozambique buys from South Africa.
• South Africa sells 1.3% of what the world exports of electricity; next come France (14%), Germany (6.8%) and Switzerland (6.1%). The rest of the world exported 276 times what Mozambique buys from South Africa.
• South Africa sells 4.1% of what the world exports of coal; next come Australia (33.5%), Indonesia (19.9%) and Russia (12.6%). The rest of the world exported 1,059.2 times what Mozambique buys from South Africa.
• South Africa sells 0.31% of what the world exports of copper ore; next come Chile (29.2%), Peru (19.8%) and Indonesia (7.9%). The rest of the world exported 880 times what Mozambique buys from South Africa.
• South Africa sells 0.95% 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 258.7 times what Mozambique buys from South Africa.
• South Africa sells 0.62% of what the world exports of detergents and surfactants; next come Germany (10.8%), United States (9.5%) and China (8.8%). The rest of the world exported 724.6 times what Mozambique buys from South Africa.
• South Africa sells 2.2% of what the world exports of corn; next come United States (23.9%), Brazil (19.5%) and Argentina (16.3%). The rest of the world exported 710.6 times what Mozambique buys from South Africa.
• South Africa sells 2.3% of what the world exports of soups and broths; next come United States (20.1%), Spain (5.7%) and Canada (5.4%). The rest of the world exported 82.4 times what Mozambique buys from South Africa.

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

Mozambique is South Africa’s 6th-largest customer, with 4.1% of its exports.

• Trade between Mozambique and South Africa
• Who does Mozambique rely on?
• Who does South Africa rely on?
• Dependence of Mozambique on China
• Trade profile of Mozambique
• Trade profile of South Africa
• 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.