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How dependent is Nigeria on Brazil?

In 2024, Brazil sold $1 billion to Nigeria, 2.2% of its imports, ranking 9th among its suppliers. Its share was 1.3% in 2019 and 5.1% in 1995. In 5 products it sells more than 50% of what Nigeria buys of them (in 1, more than 75%); what Nigeria buys from Brazil in those products (dominated value) adds up to $826 million, 1.7% of its imports.

Summary

Share of its imports
2.2%
Value imported
$1billion
Rank among its suppliers
9th
Products where it sells over 50%
5
Products where it sells over 75%
1
Dominated value
$826million
Share of total imports
1.7%

Trend

Trend in shares

Brazil went from 5.1% to 2.2% of what Nigeria buys

Share (%)

  • Brazil 2.2%

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearValue (USD millions)ShareRank
19952435.1%6
19963114.4%7
19972823.7%10
19984886.1%5
19992763.9%9
20002552.9%11
20014093.4%12
20025043.6%10
20034792.8%11
20045033.4%10
20059505.2%6
20061,4644.9%6
20071,9985%7
20081,7303.6%10
20091,4003.1%10
20101,3172.5%11
20111,7212.5%12
20122,0484.3%5
20131,1682.2%11
20141,0542%12
20158252%10
20167862.2%10
20177682%10
20187241.6%14
20196681.3%16
20207351.3%15
20219881.7%12
20229521.5%11
20231,0691.6%15
20241,0352.2%9

Products where Brazil sells more than half

ProductSupplierShareSecondValue
Cane and beet sugarBrazil99.6%over 75%Egypt · 0.18%$704 million
Ethyl alcohol (ethanol)Brazil50.7%United States · 46.9%$100 million
SaltBrazil51.9%Namibia · 28.3%$13 million
SausagesBrazil68.6%Turkey · 12.1%$6 million
Prepared meatBrazil56.3%France · 12.5%$2 million

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?

  • Brazil sells 47.2% of what the world exports of cane and beet sugar; next come Thailand (6.2%), India (4.9%) and France (4%). The rest of the world exported 31.2 times what Nigeria buys from Brazil.
  • Brazil sells 12.5% of what the world exports of ethyl alcohol (ethanol); next come United States (32.9%), Netherlands (11.5%) and Belgium (6.2%). The rest of the world exported 120.1 times what Nigeria buys from Brazil.
  • Brazil sells 0.51% of what the world exports of salt; next come India (13.2%), Australia (12.2%) and Germany (7.7%). The rest of the world exported 370.3 times what Nigeria buys from Brazil.
  • Brazil sells 2.6% of what the world exports of sausages; next come Germany (13.2%), Italy (12.6%) and United States (11.2%). The rest of the world exported 1,220 times what Nigeria buys from Brazil.
  • Brazil sells 5.8% of what the world exports of prepared meat; next come Thailand (14.7%), China (8.7%) and Germany (8.6%). The rest of the world exported 9,016.3 times what Nigeria buys from Brazil.

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

Seen from Brazil

Nigeria is Brazil’s 50th-largest customer, with 0.29% of its exports.

Sources and method

Sources and licenses

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.