Summary
- Share of its imports
- 1.7%
- Value imported
- $7.6billion
- Rank among its suppliers
- 15th
- Products where it sells over 50%
- 2
- Products where it sells over 75%
- 1
- Dominated value
- $1.5billion
- Share of total imports
- 0.4%
Trend
Trend in shares
Saudi Arabia went from 3% to 1.7% of what Singapore buys
Share (%)
- Saudi Arabia 1.7%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Value (USD millions) | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 3,802 | 3% | 10 |
| 1996 | 5,008 | 3.7% | 7 |
| 1997 | 5,369 | 3.9% | 8 |
| 1998 | 3,309 | 3.1% | 9 |
| 1999 | 3,267 | 2.8% | 11 |
| 2000 | 4,351 | 3% | 10 |
| 2001 | 4,231 | 3.4% | 8 |
| 2002 | 3,837 | 3.1% | 10 |
| 2003 | 3,978 | 2.8% | 10 |
| 2004 | 5,642 | 3.2% | 10 |
| 2005 | 9,129 | 5% | 6 |
| 2006 | 9,443 | 4.4% | 8 |
| 2007 | 8,972 | 3.3% | 8 |
| 2008 | 15,045 | 4.7% | 7 |
| 2009 | 8,220 | 3.3% | 9 |
| 2010 | 10,882 | 3.7% | 8 |
| 2011 | 17,221 | 4.8% | 8 |
| 2012 | 17,369 | 4.5% | 8 |
| 2013 | 13,348 | 3.4% | 9 |
| 2014 | 15,019 | 3.9% | 9 |
| 2015 | 8,071 | 2.6% | 12 |
| 2016 | 8,155 | 2.8% | 9 |
| 2017 | 9,201 | 2.7% | 8 |
| 2018 | 12,594 | 3.4% | 8 |
| 2019 | 8,507 | 2.4% | 12 |
| 2020 | 5,005 | 1.5% | 18 |
| 2021 | 6,197 | 1.5% | 17 |
| 2022 | 9,045 | 1.9% | 14 |
| 2023 | 6,728 | 1.6% | 16 |
| 2024 | 7,642 | 1.7% | 15 |
Products where Saudi Arabia sells more than half
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Polyethylene | Saudi Arabia | 67.3% | United States · 15.2% | $1.1 billion |
| Warships and other vessels | Saudi Arabia | 78.3%over 75% | Thailand · 13.4% | $479 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?
- Saudi Arabia sells 12.9% of what the world exports of polyethylene; next come United States (19.4%), South Korea (6.7%) and Canada (5.4%). The rest of the world exported 66.3 times what Singapore buys from Saudi Arabia.
- Saudi Arabia sells 38.4% of what the world exports of warships and other vessels; next come Norway (7.6%), China (6.1%) and Indonesia (6%). The rest of the world exported 9.9 times what Singapore buys from Saudi Arabia.
Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.
Seen from Saudi Arabia
Singapore is Saudi Arabia’s 11th-largest customer, with 2.5% of its exports.
Links
- Trade between Singapore and Saudi Arabia
- Who does Singapore rely on?
- Who does Saudi Arabia 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 France
- Dependence of Singapore on Indonesia
- Dependence of Singapore on Thailand
- Dependence of Singapore on India
- Dependence of Singapore on Brazil
- Dependence of Singapore on Vietnam
- Trade profile of Singapore
- Trade profile of Saudi Arabia
- 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.