Summary
- Share of its imports
- 7.3%
- Value imported
- $4.4billion
- Rank among its suppliers
- 3rd
- Products where it sells over 50%
- 2
- Products where it sells over 75%
- 0
- Dominated value
- $3.3billion
- Share of total imports
- 5.4%
Trend
Trend in shares
Saudi Arabia went from 1.8% to 7.3% of what Pakistan buys
Share (%)
- Saudi Arabia 7.3%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Value (USD millions) | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 146 | 1.8% | 13 |
| 1996 | 140 | 1.7% | 15 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0% | — |
| 1998 | 125 | 1.9% | 17 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0% | — |
| 2000 | 316 | 4.7% | 8 |
| 2001 | 149 | 2.3% | 17 |
| 2002 | 137 | 1.7% | 17 |
| 2003 | 1,440 | 9.7% | 2 |
| 2004 | 1,820 | 9.6% | 1 |
| 2005 | 2,750 | 9.8% | 2 |
| 2006 | 3,135 | 9.4% | 3 |
| 2007 | 4,116 | 11.7% | 2 |
| 2008 | 6,007 | 13% | 1 |
| 2009 | 3,486 | 9.9% | 2 |
| 2010 | 3,870 | 9.3% | 3 |
| 2011 | 4,725 | 9.9% | 3 |
| 2012 | 4,405 | 9.3% | 3 |
| 2013 | 4,033 | 8.5% | 3 |
| 2014 | 4,739 | 9.2% | 3 |
| 2015 | 3,338 | 6.9% | 3 |
| 2016 | 2,017 | 3.9% | 6 |
| 2017 | 2,923 | 4.8% | 3 |
| 2018 | 3,324 | 5.2% | 3 |
| 2019 | 2,483 | 4.6% | 4 |
| 2020 | 1,954 | 3.9% | 5 |
| 2021 | 3,817 | 4.9% | 6 |
| 2022 | 5,109 | 6.9% | 3 |
| 2023 | 4,489 | 7.9% | 4 |
| 2024 | 4,432 | 7.3% | 3 |
Products where Saudi Arabia sells more than half
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crude petroleum | Saudi Arabia | 56.4% | United Arab Emirates · 41.5% | $3.2 billion |
| Mixed alkylbenzenes | Saudi Arabia | 56% | United Arab Emirates · 18.5% | $84 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?
- Saudi Arabia sells 14.3% of what the world exports of crude petroleum; next come Russia (9.5%), United States (9.3%) and United Arab Emirates (8.7%). The rest of the world exported 348.7 times what Pakistan buys from Saudi Arabia.
- Saudi Arabia sells 21.9% of what the world exports of mixed alkylbenzenes; next come United States (9.7%), Canada (8.6%) and Spain (8.4%). The rest of the world exported 24.5 times what Pakistan buys from Saudi Arabia.
Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.
Seen from Saudi Arabia
Pakistan is Saudi Arabia’s 15th-largest customer, with 1.4% 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.