Summary
- Share of its imports
- 67.5%
- Value imported
- $7billion
- Rank among its suppliers
- 1st
- Products where it sells over 50%
- 343
- Products where it sells over 75%
- 242
- Dominated value
- $6.3billion
- Share of total imports
- 60.9%
Trend
Trend in shares
India went from 22.5% to 67.5% of what Nepal buys
Share (%)
- India 67.5%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Value (USD millions) | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 159 | 22.5% | 1 |
| 1996 | 165 | 27.1% | 1 |
| 1997 | 168 | 27.4% | 1 |
| 1998 | 300 | 20.6% | 1 |
| 1999 | 605 | 36.7% | 1 |
| 2000 | 448 | 26.7% | 1 |
| 2001 | 187 | 28.2% | 1 |
| 2002 | 262 | 39% | 1 |
| 2003 | 949 | 49.1% | 1 |
| 2004 | 742 | 60.2% | 1 |
| 2005 | 831 | 64.3% | 1 |
| 2006 | 922 | 63.2% | 1 |
| 2007 | 1,227 | 59.6% | 1 |
| 2008 | 1,681 | 65% | 1 |
| 2009 | 2,162 | 54.1% | 1 |
| 2010 | 3,273 | 61.2% | 1 |
| 2011 | 3,888 | 61.6% | 1 |
| 2012 | 4,040 | 59.4% | 1 |
| 2013 | 4,133 | 56.9% | 1 |
| 2014 | 5,003 | 60.8% | 1 |
| 2015 | 4,065 | 57.1% | 1 |
| 2016 | 5,869 | 62.5% | 1 |
| 2017 | 6,413 | 60.8% | 1 |
| 2018 | 8,352 | 62.8% | 1 |
| 2019 | 8,031 | 62.4% | 1 |
| 2020 | 6,394 | 63.6% | 1 |
| 2021 | 9,783 | 61% | 1 |
| 2022 | 8,777 | 63.7% | 1 |
| 2023 | 7,248 | 70.2% | 1 |
| 2024 | 6,951 | 67.5% | 1 |
Products where India sells more than half
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Refined petroleum | India | 99.6%over 75% | Australia · 0.14% | $1.5 billion |
| Natural gas and LPG | India | 100%over 75% | China · 0% | $399 million |
| Direct-reduced iron | India | 100%over 75% | — | $309 million |
| Medicines in measured doses or retail packs | India | 92.7%over 75% | United Kingdom · 2.1% | $205 million |
| Rice | India | 98.7%over 75% | United States · 0.83% | $166 million |
| Hot-rolled flat steel | India | 99.8%over 75% | China · 0.24% | $164 million |
| Motorcycles | India | 95.9%over 75% | China · 3.9% | $148 million |
| Coal | India | 100%over 75% | Tanzania · 0% | $128 million |
| Corn | India | 79.8%over 75% | Turkey · 8.6% | $96 million |
| Soybean meal and pellets | India | 89.4%over 75% | United States · 10.6% | $92 million |
| Semi-finished steel | India | 100%over 75% | — | $89 million |
| Polyethylene | India | 86.9%over 75% | Saudi Arabia · 9.6% | $73 million |
| Electricity | India | 100%over 75% | — | $70 million |
| Steel wire rod | India | 99.9%over 75% | China · 0.09% | $66 million |
| New tires | India | 90.1%over 75% | China · 5.9% | $66 million |
| Petroleum coke and bitumen | India | 100%over 75% | — | $55 million |
| Transformers and power supplies | India | 62.1% | China · 35.1% | $54 million |
| Polypropylene | India | 97.7%over 75% | Saudi Arabia · 2% | $54 million |
| Auto parts | India | 74.3% | China · 21.4% | $43 million |
| Polyester and other synthetic staple fiber | India | 86.8%over 75% | Thailand · 9.2% | $41 million |
| Refrigerators, freezers and heat pumps | India | 81.8%over 75% | China · 15.9% | $41 million |
| Cables and wire | India | 61.7% | China · 36% | $39 million |
| Steel structures | India | 79.5%over 75% | China · 19.8% | $39 million |
| Mixed fertilizers | India | 50.3% | China · 49.6% | $34 million |
| Potatoes | India | 99.9%over 75% | China · 0.08% | $34 million |
| Detergents and surfactants | India | 94.9%over 75% | China · 2.1% | $34 million |
| Polyethers, polyesters and epoxy resins | India | 84.6%over 75% | China · 15% | $32 million |
| Sorting and crushing machines | India | 79.5%over 75% | China · 19.3% | $32 million |
| Makeup and skin care | India | 76.4%over 75% | Thailand · 7.1% | $31 million |
| Writing and printing paper | India | 82.1%over 75% | Indonesia · 9.3% | $31 million |
and 313 more
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?
- India sells 5.7% 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 528.9 times what Nepal buys from India.
- India sells 0.09% 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 1,230.4 times what Nepal buys from India.
- India sells 10.5% of what the world exports of direct-reduced iron; next come Russia (18.5%), Oman (16.7%) and Trinidad and Tobago (13.4%). The rest of the world exported 13.8 times what Nepal 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 2,234.1 times what Nepal 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 165.8 times what Nepal buys from India.
- India sells 2.5% of what the world exports of hot-rolled flat steel; next come China (28.1%), Japan (13.9%) and South Korea (9%). The rest of the world exported 400.3 times what Nepal buys from India.
- India sells 7.3% of what the world exports of motorcycles; next come China (28.6%), Japan (10.4%) and Germany (8.3%). The rest of the world exported 233.2 times what Nepal buys from India.
- India sells 0.13% 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 1,382.8 times what Nepal buys from India.
- India sells 0.4% 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 468.9 times what Nepal buys from India.
- India sells 2.9% of what the world exports of soybean meal and pellets; next come Brazil (28.7%), Argentina (26.7%) and United States (18.3%). The rest of the world exported 348.2 times what Nepal buys from India.
Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.
Seen from India
Nepal is India’s 19th-largest customer, with 1.5% of its exports.
Links
Sources and method
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.