How dependent is Panama on Japan?

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%.

• Japan sells 10.9% of what the world exports of cargo and cruise ships; next come China (31%), South Korea (29.6%) and India (3.1%). The rest of the world exported 19.2 times what Panama buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 8.5% of what the world exports of passenger rail coaches; next come Spain (17.3%), Germany (14.9%) and United States (13.5%). The rest of the world exported 34.9 times what Panama buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 2.5% of what the world exports of self-propelled trains and trams; next come Spain (13.7%), Poland (12.6%) and Switzerland (11.6%). The rest of the world exported 285.3 times what Panama buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 7.3% of what the world exports of spark-ignition engines; next come United States (15.8%), Germany (11.5%) and Mexico (8.8%). The rest of the world exported 9,023.7 times what Panama buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 2% of what the world exports of railway parts; next come China (14.6%), Germany (13.5%) and United States (9.6%). The rest of the world exported 4,682 times what Panama buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 0.71% of what the world exports of railway maintenance vehicles; next come Austria (26.5%), Germany (13.2%) and United States (12.9%). The rest of the world exported 805.8 times what Panama buys from Japan.
• Japan sells 28.3% of what the world exports of photographic plates and flat film; next come China (21.1%), Germany (13.8%) and Belgium (8.6%). The rest of the world exported 4,560.9 times what Panama buys from Japan.

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

Panama is Japan’s 29th-largest customer, with 0.57% of its exports.

• Trade between Panama and Japan
• Who does Panama rely on?
• Who does Japan rely on?
• Dependence of Panama on China
• Dependence of Panama on Spain
• Dependence of Panama on the United States
• Trade profile of Panama
• Trade profile of Japan
• 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.