How dependent is Sweden on Norway?

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%.

• Norway sells 3.8% 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 226 times what Sweden buys from Norway.
• Norway sells 16.6% of what the world exports of fish fillets; next come Chile (14%), China (10.7%) and Vietnam (8%). The rest of the world exported 21.4 times what Sweden buys from Norway.
• Norway sells 5.3% of what the world exports of unwrought aluminum; next come Canada (10.9%), United Arab Emirates (9.5%) and Russia (9.4%). The rest of the world exported 187.4 times what Sweden buys from Norway.
• Norway sells 34.5% of what the world exports of fresh fish; next come United Kingdom (6.4%), Denmark (5.8%) and Chile (5.2%). The rest of the world exported 40.6 times what Sweden buys from Norway.
• Norway sells 3.8% of what the world exports of electricity; next come France (14%), Germany (6.8%) and Switzerland (6.1%). The rest of the world exported 302.2 times what Sweden buys from Norway.
• Norway sells 16% of what the world exports of dried, salted and smoked fish; next come Poland (13.8%), Netherlands (6.7%) and Denmark (5.4%). The rest of the world exported 29.1 times what Sweden buys from Norway.
• Norway sells 0.84% of what the world exports of sawn wood; next come Canada (18%), Russia (9.7%) and United States (7.2%). The rest of the world exported 218.2 times what Sweden buys from Norway.
• Norway sells 6.1% of what the world exports of newsprint; next come Canada (28.6%), Germany (9.3%) and Russia (6.6%). The rest of the world exported 39.9 times what Sweden buys from Norway.
• Norway sells 7% of what the world exports of frozen fish; next come Russia (9.1%), China (7.6%) and Chile (7.5%). The rest of the world exported 220 times what Sweden buys from Norway.
• Norway sells 0.32% of what the world exports of soybean meal and pellets; next come Brazil (28.7%), Argentina (26.7%) and United States (18.3%). The rest of the world exported 382.2 times what Sweden buys from Norway.

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

Sweden is Norway’s 4th-largest customer, with 8.2% of its exports.

• Trade between Sweden and Norway
• Who does Sweden rely on?
• Who does Norway rely on?
• Dependence of Sweden on the Netherlands
• Dependence of Sweden on China
• Dependence of Sweden on Germany
• Dependence of Sweden on the United States
• Dependence of Sweden on Finland
• Trade profile of Sweden
• Trade profile of Norway
• 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.