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How dependent is Thailand on Myanmar?

In 2024, Myanmar sold $2.9 billion to Thailand, 0.97% of its imports, ranking 22nd among its suppliers. Its share was 2.3% in 2019 and 0.31% in 1995. In 5 products it sells more than 50% of what Thailand buys of them (in 3, more than 75%); what Thailand buys from Myanmar in those products (dominated value) adds up to $629 million, 0.21% of its imports.

Summary

Share of its imports
1%
Value imported
$2.9billion
Rank among its suppliers
22nd
Products where it sells over 50%
5
Products where it sells over 75%
3
Dominated value
$629million
Share of total imports
0.2%

Trend

Trend in shares

Myanmar went from 0.31% to 0.97% of what Thailand buys

Share (%)

  • Myanmar 0.97%

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearValue (USD millions)ShareRank
19952200.31%36
19961280.18%47
1997800.13%50
1998620.14%43
19991120.22%43
20002560.42%35
20018051.3%19
20029061.4%16
20038971.2%20
20041,3501.4%17
20051,7851.5%16
20062,3361.8%14
20072,3001.6%16
20083,3771.9%14
20092,7822.1%13
20102,6421.5%15
20113,3611.5%15
20123,6791.5%14
20133,9341.6%14
20146,8033%11
20156,5533.3%10
20164,2202.2%13
20174,5792.1%14
20185,4272.2%15
20195,2712.3%13
20202,7751.4%17
20212,8621.1%21
20223,4911.2%19
20233,4691.2%17
20242,9050.97%22

Products where Myanmar sells more than half

ProductSupplierShareSecondValue
CornMyanmar85.7%over 75%Laos · 11.4%$469 million
Other oresMyanmar99.7%over 75%India · 0.32%$81 million
AntimonyMyanmar60.6%Vietnam · 37.7%$70 million
Wood charcoalMyanmar77.3%over 75%Cambodia · 11.5%$7 million
Lead oreMyanmar59.9%South Korea · 19.9%$1 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?

  • Myanmar sells 1.8% of what the world exports of corn; next come United States (23.9%), Brazil (19.5%) and Argentina (16.3%). The rest of the world exported 94.3 times what Thailand buys from Myanmar.
  • Myanmar sells 9.6% of what the world exports of other ores; next come Zimbabwe (21.3%), Canada (19.1%) and United States (8.7%). The rest of the world exported 12 times what Thailand buys from Myanmar.
  • Myanmar sells 10.3% of what the world exports of antimony; next come Tajikistan (34.5%), Vietnam (14.8%) and China (10.9%). The rest of the world exported 9.2 times what Thailand buys from Myanmar.
  • Myanmar sells 3.1% of what the world exports of wood charcoal; next come Indonesia (21.4%), Laos (6%) and Namibia (5.5%). The rest of the world exported 231.6 times what Thailand buys from Myanmar.
  • Myanmar sells 1.3% of what the world exports of lead ore; next come Mexico (20.1%), Peru (15.7%) and United States (12.7%). The rest of the world exported 4,956.3 times what Thailand buys from Myanmar.

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

Seen from Myanmar

Thailand is Myanmar’s 2nd-largest customer, with 13.8% of its exports.

Sources and method

Sources and licenses

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.