Summary
- Share of its imports
- 0.4%
- Value imported
- $861million
- Rank among its suppliers
- 39th
- Products where it sells over 50%
- 1
- Products where it sells over 75%
- 0
- Dominated value
- $858million
- Share of total imports
- 0.4%
Trend
Trend in shares
The Democratic Republic of the Congo went from 0% to 0.39% of what Saudi Arabia buys
Share (%)
- Democratic Republic of the Congo 0.39%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Value (USD millions) | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 0 | 0% | 122 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0% | 131 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0% | — |
| 1998 | 0 | 0% | 141 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0% | 161 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0% | 109 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0% | 137 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0% | — |
| 2003 | 0 | 0% | — |
| 2004 | 0 | 0% | 146 |
| 2005 | 0 | 0% | 116 |
| 2006 | 2 | 0% | 109 |
| 2007 | 0 | 0% | 155 |
| 2008 | 2 | 0% | 113 |
| 2009 | 19 | 0.02% | 82 |
| 2010 | 195 | 0.17% | 55 |
| 2011 | 449 | 0.32% | 47 |
| 2012 | 616 | 0.38% | 40 |
| 2013 | 654 | 0.37% | 41 |
| 2014 | 826 | 0.45% | 41 |
| 2015 | 606 | 0.32% | 41 |
| 2016 | 491 | 0.34% | 43 |
| 2017 | 530 | 0.37% | 44 |
| 2018 | 525 | 0.39% | 43 |
| 2019 | 529 | 0.35% | 47 |
| 2020 | 568 | 0.4% | 44 |
| 2021 | 594 | 0.39% | 39 |
| 2022 | 813 | 0.43% | 40 |
| 2023 | 347 | 0.17% | 52 |
| 2024 | 861 | 0.39% | 39 |
Products where the Democratic Republic of the Congo sells more than half
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Refined copper | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 57.3% | Republic of the Congo · 27% | $858 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?
- The Democratic Republic of the Congo sells 20.6% of what the world exports of refined copper; next come Chile (18.4%), Japan (7.7%) and Kazakhstan (4.5%). The rest of the world exported 87.7 times what Saudi Arabia buys from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.
Seen from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Saudi Arabia is the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s 4th-largest customer, with 2.9% of its exports.
Links
- Who does Saudi Arabia rely on?
- Who does the Democratic Republic of the Congo 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 Brazil
- 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 Oman
- Dependence of Saudi Arabia on Sudan
- Dependence of Saudi Arabia on Argentina
- Trade profile of Saudi Arabia
- Trade profile of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- All countries
Sources and method
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.