Summary
- Share of its imports
- 1.6%
- Value imported
- $3.6billion
- Rank among its suppliers
- 17th
- Products where it sells over 50%
- 2
- Products where it sells over 75%
- 0
- Dominated value
- $777million
- Share of total imports
- 0.4%
Trend
Trend in shares
Oman went from 0.27% to 1.6% of what Saudi Arabia buys
Share (%)
- Oman 1.6%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Value (USD millions) | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 90 | 0.27% | 45 |
| 1996 | 103 | 0.3% | 42 |
| 1997 | 73 | 0.24% | 38 |
| 1998 | 161 | 0.41% | 36 |
| 1999 | 176 | 0.51% | 34 |
| 2000 | 187 | 0.52% | 34 |
| 2001 | 260 | 0.68% | 30 |
| 2002 | 231 | 0.58% | 33 |
| 2003 | 148 | 0.32% | 46 |
| 2004 | 199 | 0.38% | 46 |
| 2005 | 267 | 0.41% | 41 |
| 2006 | 245 | 0.32% | 46 |
| 2007 | 336 | 0.35% | 45 |
| 2008 | 624 | 0.51% | 36 |
| 2009 | 519 | 0.52% | 35 |
| 2010 | 634 | 0.56% | 34 |
| 2011 | 991 | 0.7% | 28 |
| 2012 | 1,467 | 0.9% | 27 |
| 2013 | 1,795 | 1% | 24 |
| 2014 | 1,477 | 0.8% | 29 |
| 2015 | 2,024 | 1.1% | 21 |
| 2016 | 1,343 | 0.94% | 24 |
| 2017 | 1,396 | 0.98% | 24 |
| 2018 | 1,841 | 1.4% | 18 |
| 2019 | 2,524 | 1.7% | 16 |
| 2020 | 2,356 | 1.7% | 15 |
| 2021 | 2,192 | 1.4% | 18 |
| 2022 | 3,910 | 2.1% | 14 |
| 2023 | 3,684 | 1.8% | 15 |
| 2024 | 3,600 | 1.6% | 17 |
Products where Oman sells more than half
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct-reduced iron | Oman | 70.7% | Sweden · 21.5% | $772 million |
| Fish oil and marine fats | Oman | 57.2% | India · 19.4% | $5 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?
- Oman sells 16.7% of what the world exports of direct-reduced iron; next come Russia (18.5%), Trinidad and Tobago (13.4%) and United States (12.5%). The rest of the world exported 5.1 times what Saudi Arabia buys from Oman.
- Oman sells 1.8% of what the world exports of fish oil and marine fats; next come Peru (15.4%), Chile (9.3%) and China (7.6%). The rest of the world exported 930.8 times what Saudi Arabia buys from Oman.
Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.
Seen from Oman
Saudi Arabia is Oman’s 4th-largest customer, with 5.2% of its exports.
Links
- Trade between Saudi Arabia and Oman
- Who does Saudi Arabia rely on?
- Who does Oman 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 the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Dependence of Saudi Arabia on Sudan
- Dependence of Saudi Arabia on Argentina
- Trade profile of Saudi Arabia
- Trade profile of Oman
- 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.