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How dependent is Poland on South Korea?

In 2024, South Korea sold $9.3 billion to Poland, 2.5% of its imports, ranking 8th among its suppliers. Its share was 2.1% in 2019 and 1.1% in 1995. In 3 products it sells more than 50% of what Poland buys of them (in 2, more than 75%); what Poland buys from South Korea in those products (dominated value) adds up to $2.9 billion, 0.77% of its imports.

Summary

Share of its imports
2.5%
Share of its imports from outside the EU
5.4%
Value imported
$9.3billion
Rank among its suppliers
8th
Products where it sells over 50%
3
Products where it sells over 75%
2
Dominated value
$2.9billion
Share of total imports
0.8%

Trend

South Korea went from 1.1% to 2.5% of what Poland buys

Trend in shares

South Korea went from 1.1% to 2.5% of what Poland buys

Share (%)

  • South Korea 2.5%

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearValue (USD millions)ShareRank
19953421.1%22
19967952%14
19971,2782.9%11
19981,4122.9%11
19991,3282.8%11
20008971.8%16
20015511.1%20
20025690.99%22
20036360.9%23
20041,0061.1%23
20051,5481.5%18
20063,3732.6%10
20073,8542.3%10
20085,2382.5%10
20094,5153%8
20104,9022.7%9
20114,6412.2%11
20125,0472.6%8
20135,0122.4%10
20144,3062%13
20153,3241.7%16
20163,4491.7%16
20173,6461.6%16
20184,8361.8%15
20195,4932.1%12
20205,3272%12
20216,9122%12
20228,5702.3%10
20239,9042.7%8
20249,3212.5%8

Products where South Korea sells more than half

3 products, 0.77% of what it buys
ProductSupplierShareSecondValue
Chromates, permanganates and other metal saltsSouth Korea73.9%Japan · 19.4%$1.2 billion
Armored vehiclesSouth Korea76.2%over 75%United States · 18.7%$1.1 billion
Military weaponsSouth Korea83.8%over 75%Bulgaria · 5.2%$658 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?

  • South Korea sells 48.4% of what the world exports of chromates, permanganates and other metal salts; next come China (26.6%), Japan (10.6%) and United States (2.5%). The rest of the world exported 2.7 times what Poland buys from South Korea.
  • South Korea sells 18.6% of what the world exports of armored vehicles; next come United States (21.9%), Canada (18.8%) and Germany (7.3%). The rest of the world exported 5.6 times what Poland buys from South Korea.
  • South Korea sells 27.3% of what the world exports of military weapons; next come United States (17%), Azerbaijan (9%) and Norway (3.5%). The rest of the world exported 3 times what Poland buys from South Korea.

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

Seen from South Korea

South Korea’s 15th customer, 1.2% of its sales

Poland is South Korea’s 15th-largest customer, with 1.2% of its exports.

Sources and method

CEPII BACI and 1 more

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.