How dependent is Sweden on the United States?

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%.

• The United States sells 30.3% of what the world exports of turbojets and gas turbines; next come United Kingdom (14.5%), France (10%) and Hong Kong (5.3%). The rest of the world exported 260.5 times what Sweden buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 31.8% of what the world exports of open-chain hydrocarbons; next come South Korea (14.3%), Netherlands (6.8%) and Belgium (4.4%). The rest of the world exported 48.8 times what Sweden buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 18.4% of what the world exports of glands, heparin and organ extracts; next come China (18.8%), Singapore (12.7%) and France (8.5%). The rest of the world exported 21.3 times what Sweden buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 31.6% of what the world exports of wood tar, wood creosote and vegetable pitch; next come Netherlands (22.6%), Finland (6.4%) and France (6.1%). The rest of the world exported 2.5 times what Sweden buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 0.35% of what the world exports of semi-finished steel; next come Russia (19.8%), Brazil (11.9%) and China (10.7%). The rest of the world exported 1,225.8 times what Sweden buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 33.2% of what the world exports of kaolin; next come United Kingdom (13.2%), China (11.2%) and Brazil (8.2%). The rest of the world exported 56.8 times what Sweden buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 3% of what the world exports of other clothing accessories (not knitted); next come China (27.1%), South Korea (13.2%) and Italy (13.1%). The rest of the world exported 133.1 times what Sweden buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 25.5% of what the world exports of nickel plates, sheets and foil; next come Germany (26%), Japan (16.1%) and France (5.1%). The rest of the world exported 93.3 times what Sweden buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 12.5% of what the world exports of direct-reduced iron; next come Russia (18.5%), Oman (16.7%) and Trinidad and Tobago (13.4%). The rest of the world exported 351.5 times what Sweden buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 0.84% of what the world exports of iron ore; next come Australia (54.2%), Brazil (20.8%) and Canada (4.4%). The rest of the world exported 16,673.9 times what Sweden buys from the United States.

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

Sweden is the United States’ 42nd-largest customer, with 0.39% of its exports.

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