How dependent is the Philippines on Vietnam?

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%.

• Vietnam sells 10.5% of what the world exports of rice; next come India (29.3%), Thailand (17.2%) and Pakistan (10.1%). The rest of the world exported 19.2 times what the Philippines buys from Vietnam.
• Vietnam sells 9.5% of what the world exports of cement; next come Turkey (9.6%), Egypt (7.1%) and Germany (4.9%). The rest of the world exported 32.2 times what the Philippines buys from Vietnam.
• Vietnam sells 8.4% of what the world exports of coffee; next come Brazil (23%), Switzerland (8%) and Colombia (7.5%). The rest of the world exported 293.3 times what the Philippines buys from Vietnam.
• Vietnam sells 2.6% of what the world exports of prefabricated buildings; next come China (28.2%), United States (4.4%) and Germany (3.6%). The rest of the world exported 124.9 times what the Philippines buys from Vietnam.
• Vietnam sells 20.2% of what the world exports of pepper, dried chili and paprika; next come India (24.8%), China (14.6%) and Spain (5.7%). The rest of the world exported 144.7 times what the Philippines buys from Vietnam.
• Vietnam sells 1.7% of what the world exports of wheat flour; next come Turkey (20.1%), Kazakhstan (8.6%) and Germany (8%). The rest of the world exported 241.1 times what the Philippines buys from Vietnam.
• Vietnam sells 0.97% of what the world exports of uninsulated copper cable; next come Turkey (19.4%), Germany (14.4%) and United States (14.3%). The rest of the world exported 139 times what the Philippines buys from Vietnam.
• Vietnam sells 3.7% of what the world exports of quicklime and slaked lime; next come France (10.4%), Germany (5.7%) and Malaysia (5.6%). The rest of the world exported 84.5 times what the Philippines buys from Vietnam.
• Vietnam sells 7.3% of what the world exports of crustaceans (shrimp, lobster, crab); next come Ecuador (22.5%), India (16%) and Canada (11.3%). The rest of the world exported 1,547.5 times what the Philippines buys from Vietnam.
• Vietnam sells 31.5% of what the world exports of coconuts, Brazil nuts and cashews; next come Côte d'Ivoire (12.6%), Tanzania (6.4%) and Indonesia (6.1%). The rest of the world exported 510.7 times what the Philippines buys from Vietnam.

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

The Philippines is Vietnam’s 19th-largest customer, with 1.1% of its exports.

• Trade between the Philippines and Vietnam
• Who does the Philippines rely on?
• Who does Vietnam rely on?
• Dependence of the Philippines on China
• Dependence of the Philippines on Indonesia
• Dependence of the Philippines on Thailand
• Dependence of the Philippines on the United States
• Dependence of the Philippines on Japan
• Dependence of the Philippines on Singapore
• Dependence of the Philippines on Australia
• Dependence of the Philippines on Malaysia
• Trade profile of the Philippines
• Trade profile of Vietnam
• 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.