How dependent is Tunisia on Russia?

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%.

• Russia sells 5.3% of what the world exports of refined petroleum; next come United States (11.7%), Singapore (6.3%) and South Korea (5.9%). The rest of the world exported 664.4 times what Tunisia buys from Russia.
• Russia sells 14.5% of what the world exports of nitrogen fertilizers; next come China (9.5%), Oman (8%) and Qatar (5.3%). The rest of the world exported 575 times what Tunisia buys from Russia.
• Russia sells 24.1% of what the world exports of sunflower, safflower and cottonseed oil; next come Ukraine (29.5%), Turkey (7%) and Netherlands (5.9%). The rest of the world exported 359.2 times what Tunisia buys from Russia.
• Russia sells 9.8% of what the world exports of rapeseed and mustard oil; next come Canada (36.8%), Germany (10.9%) and France (5.7%). The rest of the world exported 1,618.6 times what Tunisia buys from Russia.
• Russia sells 2.8% of what the world exports of molasses; next come Indonesia (9.3%), Guatemala (8.3%) and Egypt (5.6%). The rest of the world exported 438.2 times what Tunisia buys from Russia.
• Russia sells 10.2% of what the world exports of carbon black and other carbon; next come China (18.4%), India (8.1%) and Germany (8%). The rest of the world exported 2,730.1 times what Tunisia buys from Russia.

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

Tunisia is Russia’s 31st-largest customer, with 0.47% of its exports.

• Trade between Tunisia and Russia
• Who does Tunisia rely on?
• Who does Russia rely on?
• Dependence of Tunisia on Algeria
• Dependence of Tunisia on China
• Trade profile of Tunisia
• Trade profile of Russia
• 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.