How dependent is Nigeria on the United States?

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 States sells 9.3% of what the world exports of crude petroleum; next come Saudi Arabia (14.3%), Russia (9.5%) and United Arab Emirates (8.7%). The rest of the world exported 945.2 times what Nigeria buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 6.6% of what the world exports of cars; next come Germany (17.4%), Japan (12.3%) and China (9.1%). The rest of the world exported 1,391.6 times what Nigeria buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 18% of what the world exports of natural gas and LPG; next come Norway (11%), Australia (10%) and Qatar (9.1%). The rest of the world exported 996.9 times what Nigeria buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 31.8% of what the world exports of open-chain hydrocarbons; next come South Korea (14.3%), Netherlands (6.8%) and Belgium (4.4%). The rest of the world exported 362.4 times what Nigeria buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 28.9% of what the world exports of soybeans; next come Brazil (55.4%), Paraguay (4.1%) and Canada (3%). The rest of the world exported 1,975.7 times what Nigeria buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 5.4% of what the world exports of tissue paper stock; next come Indonesia (14.5%), Turkey (11.3%) and China (9.9%). The rest of the world exported 463.3 times what Nigeria buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 0.56% of what the world exports of fishing vessels; next come Turkey (21.3%), Spain (13.6%) and Norway (13.6%). The rest of the world exported 281.4 times what Nigeria buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 17.6% of what the world exports of nickel pipes and fittings; next come China (12.8%), Germany (10.3%) and United Kingdom (9.8%). The rest of the world exported 1,065 times what Nigeria buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 5.6% of what the world exports of radioactive elements; next come Kazakhstan (18.8%), Canada (17.6%) and Russia (11.8%). The rest of the world exported 23,126.2 times what Nigeria buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 62.2% of what the world exports of sorghum; next come Australia (20.6%), Argentina (8.8%) and France (1.6%). The rest of the world exported 1,065.1 times what Nigeria buys from the United States.

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

Nigeria is the United States’ 52nd-largest customer, with 0.23% of its exports.

• Trade between Nigeria and the United States
• Who does Nigeria rely on?
• Who does the United States rely on?
• Dependence of Nigeria on China
• Dependence of Nigeria on Brazil
• Trade profile of Nigeria
• Trade profile of the United States
• 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.