How dependent is Singapore 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 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 92 times what Singapore buys from Brazil.
• Brazil sells 7.7% of what the world exports of pork; next come United States (18%), Spain (16.6%) and Germany (11.1%). The rest of the world exported 167.9 times what Singapore buys from Brazil.
• Brazil sells 9.1% of what the world exports of ferroalloys; next come Indonesia (30.3%), South Africa (11.5%) and India (6.4%). The rest of the world exported 208.8 times what Singapore buys from Brazil.
• Brazil sells 3.9% of what the world exports of copper ore; next come Chile (29.2%), Peru (19.8%) and Indonesia (7.9%). The rest of the world exported 738.7 times what Singapore buys from Brazil.
• Brazil sells 3.4% of what the world exports of other animal fats and oils; next come Netherlands (19.3%), New Zealand (13.8%) and Germany (11.2%). The rest of the world exported 35.3 times what Singapore buys from Brazil.

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

Singapore is Brazil’s 8th-largest customer, with 2.1% of its exports.

• Trade between Singapore and Brazil
• Who does Singapore rely on?
• Who does Brazil rely on?
• Dependence of Singapore on China
• Dependence of Singapore on the United States
• Dependence of Singapore on Malaysia
• Dependence of Singapore on South Korea
• Dependence of Singapore on Switzerland
• Dependence of Singapore on Saudi Arabia
• Dependence of Singapore on France
• Dependence of Singapore on Indonesia
• Dependence of Singapore on Thailand
• Dependence of Singapore on India
• Dependence of Singapore on Vietnam
• Trade profile of Singapore
• 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.