How dependent is Thailand on Indonesia?

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%.

• Indonesia sells 19.9% of what the world exports of coal; next come Australia (33.5%), Russia (12.6%) and United States (10.6%). The rest of the world exported 120.2 times what Thailand buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 32% of what the world exports of hydrogenated fats and oils; next come Malaysia (17.6%), Netherlands (6.9%) and Germany (4.9%). The rest of the world exported 82.8 times what Thailand buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 63.1% of what the world exports of edible insects and other animal products; next come Malaysia (22.2%), Hong Kong (3.9%) and China (3.5%). The rest of the world exported 10.6 times what Thailand buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 33.6% of what the world exports of crude glycerin; next come Germany (18.1%), Malaysia (11.7%) and Brazil (8.3%). The rest of the world exported 53.4 times what Thailand buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 14.5% of what the world exports of tissue paper stock; next come Turkey (11.3%), China (9.9%) and Italy (9.8%). The rest of the world exported 156.2 times what Thailand buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 12% of what the world exports of soap; next come China (11%), Germany (7.3%) and United States (5.9%). The rest of the world exported 309.4 times what Thailand buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 26.7% of what the world exports of cotton linters and other plant products; next come India (10.5%), Sri Lanka (7.9%) and Malaysia (7.5%). The rest of the world exported 56.7 times what Thailand buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 33.9% of what the world exports of coconut and palm kernel oil; next come Philippines (26.6%), Malaysia (15.4%) and Netherlands (5.9%). The rest of the world exported 240.5 times what Thailand buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 9.5% of what the world exports of carbon, self-copy and transfer papers; next come China (21.2%), United States (11%) and Germany (9.7%). The rest of the world exported 27.9 times what Thailand buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 0.39% of what the world exports of gold and silverware; next come South Korea (27.6%), Italy (20.1%) and China (15.2%). The rest of the world exported 427.2 times what Thailand buys from Indonesia.

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

Thailand is Indonesia’s 10th-largest customer, with 2.8% of its exports.

• Trade between Thailand and Indonesia
• Who does Thailand rely on?
• Who does Indonesia rely on?
• Dependence of Thailand on China
• Dependence of Thailand on Taiwan
• Dependence of Thailand on Japan
• Dependence of Thailand on Brazil
• Dependence of Thailand on Laos
• Dependence of Thailand on France
• Dependence of Thailand on the United States
• Dependence of Thailand on Singapore
• Dependence of Thailand on Myanmar
• Trade profile of Thailand
• Trade profile of Indonesia
• 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.