Summary
Some of these goods may have been produced in another country: countries record origin in different ways.
- Share of its imports
- 7.1%
- Value imported
- $1.4billion
- Rank among its suppliers
- 3rd
- Products where it sells over 50%
- 5
- Products where it sells over 75%
- 2
- Dominated value
- $873million
- Share of total imports
- 4.6%
Trend
Trend in shares
The United Arab Emirates went from 0% to 7.1% of what Sri Lanka buys
Share (%)
- United Arab Emirates 7.1%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Value (USD millions) | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 0 | 0% | — |
| 1996 | 0 | 0% | — |
| 1997 | 0 | 0% | — |
| 1998 | 0 | 0% | — |
| 1999 | 111 | 1.8% | 17 |
| 2000 | 140 | 1.9% | 18 |
| 2001 | 151 | 2.5% | 17 |
| 2002 | 265 | 4% | 9 |
| 2003 | 180 | 2.5% | 15 |
| 2004 | 196 | 2.3% | 15 |
| 2005 | 237 | 2.6% | 13 |
| 2006 | 186 | 1.7% | 18 |
| 2007 | 391 | 3.2% | 7 |
| 2008 | 474 | 3.2% | 6 |
| 2009 | 295 | 2.9% | 7 |
| 2010 | 336 | 2.4% | 10 |
| 2011 | 815 | 3.9% | 6 |
| 2012 | 1,295 | 6.9% | 3 |
| 2013 | 1,240 | 6.3% | 4 |
| 2014 | 1,782 | 7.8% | 3 |
| 2015 | 1,108 | 5% | 4 |
| 2016 | 1,127 | 5.4% | 4 |
| 2017 | 1,604 | 7.1% | 4 |
| 2018 | 963 | 4.8% | 5 |
| 2019 | 1,637 | 8% | 3 |
| 2020 | 951 | 5.8% | 3 |
| 2021 | 1,592 | 7.2% | 3 |
| 2022 | 1,052 | 5.7% | 3 |
| 2023 | 1,833 | 10.5% | 3 |
| 2024 | 1,354 | 7.1% | 3 |
Products where the United Arab Emirates sells more than half
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crude petroleum | United Arab Emirates | 100%over 75% | India · 0% | $766 million |
| Copper wire | United Arab Emirates | 72.5% | India · 21.1% | $48 million |
| Dried, salted and smoked fish | United Arab Emirates | 67.1% | Thailand · 14.3% | $47 million |
| Avocados, mangoes, pineapples and dates | United Arab Emirates | 76.8%over 75% | Saudi Arabia · 17.2% | $11 million |
| Quicklime and slaked lime | United Arab Emirates | 60.1% | India · 17.2% | $764 thousand |
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?
- The United Arab Emirates sells 8.7% of what the world exports of crude petroleum; next come Saudi Arabia (14.3%), Russia (9.5%) and United States (9.3%). The rest of the world exported 1,557.9 times what Sri Lanka buys from the United Arab Emirates.
- The United Arab Emirates sells 8.3% of what the world exports of copper wire; next come Germany (12.4%), Belgium (7.2%) and Spain (6.7%). The rest of the world exported 571.5 times what Sri Lanka buys from the United Arab Emirates.
- The United Arab Emirates sells 0.77% of what the world exports of dried, salted and smoked fish; next come Norway (16%), Poland (13.8%) and Netherlands (6.7%). The rest of the world exported 141.4 times what Sri Lanka buys from the United Arab Emirates.
- The United Arab Emirates sells 1.3% of what the world exports of avocados, mangoes, pineapples and dates; next come Mexico (23.9%), Peru (10%) and Costa Rica (9.3%). The rest of the world exported 1,887.5 times what Sri Lanka buys from the United Arab Emirates.
- The United Arab Emirates sells 3% of what the world exports of quicklime and slaked lime; next come France (10.4%), Germany (5.7%) and Malaysia (5.6%). The rest of the world exported 1,869 times what Sri Lanka buys from the United Arab Emirates.
Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.
Seen from the United Arab Emirates
Sri Lanka is the United Arab Emirates’ 32nd-largest customer, with 0.44% of its exports.
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.