Summary
- Share of its imports
- 5.4%
- Share of its imports from outside the EU
- 14.9%
- Value imported
- $5.9billion
- Rank among its suppliers
- 6th
- Products where it sells over 50%
- 2
- Products where it sells over 75%
- 0
- Dominated value
- $679million
- Share of total imports
- 0.6%
Trend
Trend in shares
South Korea went from 0.43% to 5.4% of what Slovakia buys
Share (%)
- South Korea 5.4%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Value (USD millions) | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 40 | 0.43% | 24 |
| 1996 | 171 | 1.4% | 13 |
| 1997 | 44 | 0.35% | 25 |
| 1998 | 74 | 0.53% | 23 |
| 1999 | 42 | 0.35% | 25 |
| 2000 | 38 | 0.28% | 25 |
| 2001 | 42 | 0.27% | 27 |
| 2002 | 57 | 0.32% | 27 |
| 2003 | 199 | 0.84% | 20 |
| 2004 | 544 | 1.9% | 13 |
| 2005 | 954 | 2.8% | 10 |
| 2006 | 1,719 | 3.9% | 8 |
| 2007 | 3,742 | 6.5% | 4 |
| 2008 | 5,291 | 7.3% | 4 |
| 2009 | 3,769 | 7.2% | 4 |
| 2010 | 6,660 | 10.4% | 3 |
| 2011 | 5,665 | 7.6% | 4 |
| 2012 | 7,386 | 10.1% | 3 |
| 2013 | 7,237 | 9.1% | 4 |
| 2014 | 5,796 | 7.2% | 5 |
| 2015 | 4,926 | 6.7% | 4 |
| 2016 | 4,353 | 6% | 5 |
| 2017 | 4,723 | 5.8% | 5 |
| 2018 | 5,325 | 6% | 5 |
| 2019 | 4,761 | 5.4% | 7 |
| 2020 | 4,093 | 5% | 6 |
| 2021 | 5,599 | 5.5% | 6 |
| 2022 | 5,863 | 5.3% | 6 |
| 2023 | 5,853 | 5.4% | 6 |
| 2024 | 5,921 | 5.4% | 6 |
Products where South Korea sells more than half
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Engine parts | South Korea | 55.2% | Poland · 12.9% | $504 million |
| Spark plugs, starters and ignition equipment | South Korea | 53.9% | France · 17.3% | $175 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?
- South Korea sells 4.2% of what the world exports of engine parts; next come Germany (19.1%), China (11.7%) and United States (8.3%). The rest of the world exported 135.6 times what Slovakia buys from South Korea.
- South Korea sells 3.1% of what the world exports of spark plugs, starters and ignition equipment; next come China (16.8%), Japan (16.3%) and United States (10.1%). The rest of the world exported 125.8 times what Slovakia buys from South Korea.
Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.
Seen from South Korea
Slovakia is South Korea’s 22nd-largest customer, with 0.78% of its exports.
Links
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.