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How dependent is Papua New Guinea on Singapore?

In 2024, Singapore sold $882 million to Papua New Guinea, 16.1% of its imports, ranking 3rd among its suppliers. Its share was 16% in 2019 and 14.4% in 1995. In 6 products it sells more than 50% of what Papua New Guinea buys of them (in 2, more than 75%); what Papua New Guinea buys from Singapore in those products (dominated value) adds up to $763 million, 13.9% of its imports.

Summary

Some of these goods may have been produced in another country: countries record origin in different ways.

Share of its imports
16.1%
Value imported
$882million
Rank among its suppliers
3rd
Products where it sells over 50%
6
Products where it sells over 75%
2
Dominated value
$763million
Share of total imports
13.9%

Trend

Trend in shares

Singapore went from 14.4% to 16.1% of what Papua New Guinea buys

Share (%)

  • Singapore 16.1%

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearValue (USD millions)ShareRank
199516114.4%2
199615210.2%3
199718612.5%2
1998936.2%4
199914415.1%2
2000816.5%3
20011238.6%2
2002876.6%3
20031157.8%3
20041387.7%2
200523514%2
200625012.8%2
200730212.1%2
200848216.4%2
20093219.8%3
201053112.4%2
20116789.8%2
20121,13112.6%2
201379313.5%2
201478514.8%2
201558112.3%3
20163729.5%3
201745210.6%3
201852011.9%3
201982716%3
202059713.5%3
202169014.2%3
202285213.4%3
20231,00115.3%3
202488216.1%3

Products where Singapore sells more than half

ProductSupplierShareSecondValue
Refined petroleumSingapore74.1%Malaysia · 8.3%$656 million
Other food preparationsSingapore73%Australia · 10.9%$71 million
Turbojets and gas turbinesSingapore58.8%Italy · 23.7%$31 million
Other inorganic acids and nonmetal oxidesSingapore79%over 75%Australia · 15.6%$2 million
BeerSingapore88.3%over 75%Australia · 9.1%$2 million
Hydraulic brake fluidsSingapore51.4%Australia · 39.8%$687 thousand

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?

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

Seen from Singapore

Papua New Guinea is Singapore’s 35th-largest customer, with 0.27% 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.