How dependent is Saudi Arabia on Brazil?

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%.

• Brazil sells 47.2% of what the world exports of cane and beet sugar; next come Thailand (6.2%), India (4.9%) and France (4%). The rest of the world exported 23.1 times what Saudi Arabia buys from Brazil.
• Brazil sells 26.3% of what the world exports of poultry meat; next come United States (12.9%), Poland (12.7%) and Netherlands (7.5%). The rest of the world exported 30.1 times what Saudi Arabia buys from Brazil.
• Brazil sells 15.3% of what the world exports of ceramic bricks and goods of siliceous fossil earths; next come China (12.9%), Spain (12.6%) and Denmark (10.2%). The rest of the world exported 5.5 times what Saudi Arabia buys from Brazil.
• Brazil sells 2.2% of what the world exports of bauxite (aluminum ore); next come Guinea (70.6%), Australia (17.8%) and China (1.9%). The rest of the world exported 353.1 times what Saudi Arabia buys from Brazil.

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

Saudi Arabia is Brazil’s 26th-largest customer, with 0.98% of its exports.

• Trade between Saudi Arabia and Brazil
• Who does Saudi Arabia rely on?
• Who does Brazil rely on?
• Dependence of Saudi Arabia on China
• Dependence of Saudi Arabia on Switzerland
• Dependence of Saudi Arabia on India
• Dependence of Saudi Arabia on the United States
• Dependence of Saudi Arabia on Indonesia
• Dependence of Saudi Arabia on Canada
• Dependence of Saudi Arabia on the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Dependence of Saudi Arabia on Oman
• Dependence of Saudi Arabia on Sudan
• Dependence of Saudi Arabia on Argentina
• Trade profile of Saudi Arabia
• Trade profile of Brazil
• 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.