How dependent is Timor-Leste on Indonesia?

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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 5.2% of what the world exports of motorcycles; next come China (28.6%), Japan (10.4%) and Germany (8.3%). The rest of the world exported 1,210.2 times what Timor-Leste buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 0.25% of what the world exports of trucks; next come Mexico (19.7%), United States (11.3%) and Germany (7.6%). The rest of the world exported 7,543.9 times what Timor-Leste buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 3.1% of what the world exports of cement; next come Turkey (9.6%), Vietnam (9.5%) and Egypt (7.1%). The rest of the world exported 583.7 times what Timor-Leste buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 48.7% of what the world exports of palm oil; next come Malaysia (34.1%), Netherlands (2%) and Thailand (1.9%). The rest of the world exported 1,217.5 times what Timor-Leste buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 3% of what the world exports of pasta; next come Italy (28.2%), South Korea (9%) and China (7.6%). The rest of the world exported 922 times what Timor-Leste buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 1.8% of what the world exports of bread, biscuits and pastries; next come Germany (10.2%), Canada (9.7%) and Italy (7.8%). The rest of the world exported 3,944.3 times what Timor-Leste buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 6.8% of what the world exports of cigarettes and cigars; next come Poland (21.3%), Germany (7.4%) and Czechia (5.7%). The rest of the world exported 1,995 times what Timor-Leste buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 1% of what the world exports of bulldozers and excavators; next come China (25.8%), Japan (19.7%) and United States (6.8%). The rest of the world exported 6,118.4 times what Timor-Leste buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 0.33% of what the world exports of powdered and condensed milk; next come New Zealand (28.6%), Netherlands (9.2%) and United States (8.3%). The rest of the world exported 2,548.8 times what Timor-Leste buys from Indonesia.
• Indonesia sells 0.38% of what the world exports of wheat flour; next come Turkey (20.1%), Kazakhstan (8.6%) and Germany (8%). The rest of the world exported 703.9 times what Timor-Leste buys from Indonesia.

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

Timor-Leste is Indonesia’s 47th-largest customer, with 0.13% of its exports.

• Who does Timor-Leste rely on?
• Who does Indonesia rely on?
• Trade profile of Timor-Leste
• 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.