How dependent is Saudi Arabia on India?

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%.

• India sells 3.8% of what the world exports of airplanes and helicopters; next come United States (25.2%), France (24.9%) and Germany (15.2%). The rest of the world exported 96.5 times what Saudi Arabia buys from India.
• India sells 29.3% of what the world exports of rice; next come Thailand (17.2%), Vietnam (10.5%) and Pakistan (10.1%). The rest of the world exported 18.6 times what Saudi Arabia buys from India.
• India sells 3.9% of what the world exports of cyclic hydrocarbons; next come South Korea (22.5%), Japan (8.5%) and Netherlands (6.4%). The rest of the world exported 63.5 times what Saudi Arabia buys from India.
• India sells 19.7% of what the world exports of barite; next come China (16%), Morocco (15.2%) and Laos (10.9%). The rest of the world exported 11 times what Saudi Arabia buys from India.
• India sells 14.8% of what the world exports of baby clothes (knitted); next come China (25.6%), Bangladesh (15.2%) and Cambodia (5.5%). The rest of the world exported 90.2 times what Saudi Arabia buys from India.
• India sells 5.7% of what the world exports of kaolin; next come United States (33.2%), United Kingdom (13.2%) and China (11.2%). The rest of the world exported 36.9 times what Saudi Arabia buys from India.
• India sells 54.8% of what the world exports of anise, coriander and cumin seeds; next come Egypt (6.9%), China (6.6%) and Vietnam (3.8%). The rest of the world exported 25.9 times what Saudi Arabia buys from India.
• India sells 23.4% of what the world exports of diamonds; next come Belgium (12%), United Arab Emirates (10.5%) and Israel (8.6%). The rest of the world exported 2,457.7 times what Saudi Arabia buys from India.
• India sells 9.7% of what the world exports of raw tobacco; next come Brazil (19.9%), Zimbabwe (10.3%) and United States (7.7%). The rest of the world exported 587.7 times what Saudi Arabia buys from India.
• India sells 4.6% of what the world exports of propellant powders; next come Canada (16.7%), United States (16.4%) and Slovakia (8%). The rest of the world exported 107.8 times what Saudi Arabia buys from India.

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

Saudi Arabia is India’s 6th-largest customer, with 3% of its exports.

• Trade between Saudi Arabia and India
• Who does Saudi Arabia rely on?
• Who does India rely on?
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• 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 India
• 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.