Summary
- Share of its imports
- 1.3%
- Value imported
- $4.8billion
- Rank among its suppliers
- 18th
- Products where it sells over 50%
- 3
- Products where it sells over 75%
- 3
- Dominated value
- $4.7billion
- Share of total imports
- 1.3%
Trend
Trend in shares
Zambia went from 0.01% to 1.3% of what Switzerland buys
Share (%)
- Zambia 1.3%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Value (USD millions) | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 4 | 0.01% | 104 |
| 1996 | 2 | 0% | 117 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0% | 138 |
| 1998 | 7 | 0.01% | 101 |
| 1999 | 136 | 0.15% | 43 |
| 2000 | 103 | 0.11% | 53 |
| 2001 | 61 | 0.06% | 67 |
| 2002 | 55 | 0.06% | 69 |
| 2003 | 79 | 0.07% | 67 |
| 2004 | 252 | 0.2% | 44 |
| 2005 | 756 | 0.53% | 22 |
| 2006 | 1,495 | 0.94% | 15 |
| 2007 | 1,978 | 1.1% | 15 |
| 2008 | 2,375 | 1.1% | 17 |
| 2009 | 1,691 | 0.88% | 19 |
| 2010 | 3,114 | 1.5% | 15 |
| 2011 | 4,582 | 1.7% | 15 |
| 2012 | 3,957 | 1.3% | 16 |
| 2013 | 3,921 | 1.4% | 14 |
| 2014 | 4,325 | 1.5% | 12 |
| 2015 | 2,105 | 0.89% | 22 |
| 2016 | 2,489 | 0.89% | 23 |
| 2017 | 3,570 | 1.3% | 17 |
| 2018 | 3,801 | 1.3% | 15 |
| 2019 | 2,880 | 1% | 19 |
| 2020 | 3,530 | 1.2% | 18 |
| 2021 | 4,646 | 1.4% | 16 |
| 2022 | 4,492 | 1.2% | 19 |
| 2023 | 4,263 | 1.1% | 21 |
| 2024 | 4,801 | 1.3% | 18 |
Products where Zambia sells more than half
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unrefined copper | Zambia | 100%over 75% | Netherlands · 0% | $3.8 billion |
| Refined copper | Zambia | 92.8%over 75% | Chile · 3.5% | $897 million |
| Nickel ore | Zambia | 98.7%over 75% | Zimbabwe · 0.69% | $68 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?
- Zambia sells 39.1% of what the world exports of unrefined copper; next come Chile (11.3%), Sweden (10.9%) and Bulgaria (8.5%). The rest of the world exported 3.1 times what Switzerland buys from Zambia.
- Zambia sells 2.6% of what the world exports of refined copper; next come Democratic Republic of the Congo (20.6%), Chile (18.4%) and Japan (7.7%). The rest of the world exported 102.7 times what Switzerland buys from Zambia.
- Zambia sells 10.8% of what the world exports of nickel ore; next come Philippines (39.6%), Finland (8.2%) and New Caledonia (6.9%). The rest of the world exported 64.7 times what Switzerland buys from Zambia.
Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.
Seen from Zambia
Switzerland is Zambia’s 1st-largest customer, with 33% of its exports.
Links
- Trade between Switzerland and Zambia
- Who does Switzerland rely on?
- Who does Zambia rely on?
- Dependence of Switzerland on Germany
- Dependence of Switzerland on France
- Dependence of Switzerland on Italy
- Dependence of Switzerland on China
- Dependence of Switzerland on the United States
- Trade profile of Switzerland
- Trade profile of Zambia
- 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.