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How dependent is the Philippines on Malaysia?

In 2024, Malaysia sold $6.1 billion to the Philippines, 4.4% of its imports, ranking 7th among its suppliers. Its share was 4.2% in 2019 and 2.6% in 1995. In 4 products it sells more than 50% of what the Philippines buys of them (in 0, more than 75%); what the Philippines buys from Malaysia in those products (dominated value) adds up to $682 million, 0.49% of its imports.

Summary

Share of its imports
4.4%
Value imported
$6.1billion
Rank among its suppliers
7th
Products where it sells over 50%
4
Products where it sells over 75%
0
Dominated value
$682million
Share of total imports
0.5%

Trend

Trend in shares

Malaysia went from 2.6% to 4.4% of what the Philippines buys

Share (%)

  • Malaysia 4.4%

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearValue (USD millions)ShareRank
19956672.6%9
19961,0182.9%9
19971,1672.9%11
19981,1863.9%8
19991,2323.9%8
20001,5244.3%7
20011,0663.1%9
20021,5154.4%8
20031,3953.8%9
20041,8834.4%8
20051,8234.1%10
20062,0934%10
20072,8374.7%8
20082,4773.7%9
20091,9313.7%9
20102,6444%9
20112,7084.2%10
20122,7723.7%10
20132,6343.4%10
20143,4584.4%9
20152,9523.8%9
20163,5763.8%9
20174,3534%9
20184,6263.9%9
20195,0694.2%9
20204,4224.4%9
20215,6804.5%9
20226,5914.4%9
20236,1914.6%8
20246,1274.4%7

Products where Malaysia sells more than half

ProductSupplierShareSecondValue
Palm oilMalaysia60.9%Indonesia · 38.4%$574 million
Cocoa powderMalaysia51.7%Indonesia · 24.8%$75 million
Rapeseed and mustard oilMalaysia61.2%Singapore · 17.8%$27 million
AmmoniaMalaysia56.3%China · 27.1%$4 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?

  • Malaysia sells 34.1% of what the world exports of palm oil; next come Indonesia (48.7%), Netherlands (2%) and Thailand (1.9%). The rest of the world exported 48.7 times what the Philippines buys from Malaysia.
  • Malaysia sells 15.1% of what the world exports of cocoa powder; next come Netherlands (26.9%), Indonesia (9.8%) and Germany (9%). The rest of the world exported 53.3 times what the Philippines buys from Malaysia.
  • Malaysia sells 0.82% of what the world exports of rapeseed and mustard oil; next come Canada (36.8%), Germany (10.9%) and Russia (9.8%). The rest of the world exported 429.6 times what the Philippines buys from Malaysia.
  • Malaysia sells 2.3% of what the world exports of ammonia; next come Trinidad and Tobago (20.6%), Saudi Arabia (13%) and Indonesia (8.5%). The rest of the world exported 1,982.9 times what the Philippines buys from Malaysia.

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

Seen from Malaysia

The Philippines is Malaysia’s 15th-largest customer, with 1.5% 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.