How dependent is the United Arab Emirates on Australia?

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%.

• Australia sells 30.5% of what the world exports of aluminum oxide and hydroxide; next come Brazil (17%), China (9.8%) and Indonesia (9.4%). The rest of the world exported 13.6 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 22.7% of what the world exports of rapeseed (canola); next come Canada (32%), Ukraine (14.7%) and France (6.1%). The rest of the world exported 30.9 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 0.49% of what the world exports of crude petroleum; next come Saudi Arabia (14.3%), Russia (9.5%) and United States (9.3%). The rest of the world exported 4,083.9 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 42.2% of what the world exports of lamb and goat meat; next come New Zealand (24.4%), United Kingdom (8.7%) and Ireland (4.6%). The rest of the world exported 23.7 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 1.6% of what the world exports of firearm parts; next come United States (17.6%), South Korea (7.6%) and Germany (7.1%). The rest of the world exported 76.1 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 17.8% of what the world exports of bauxite (aluminum ore); next come Guinea (70.6%), Brazil (2.2%) and China (1.9%). The rest of the world exported 502.1 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 24.5% of what the world exports of pumice, emery and natural abrasives; next come China (15.1%), India (11.2%) and Turkey (10.8%). The rest of the world exported 18.9 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from Australia.
• Australia sells 63.4% of what the world exports of raw wool; next come New Zealand (10%), South Africa (9.4%) and Uruguay (2.8%). The rest of the world exported 201 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from Australia.

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

The United Arab Emirates is Australia’s 17th-largest customer, with 0.99% of its exports.

• Trade between the United Arab Emirates and Australia
• Who does the United Arab Emirates rely on?
• Who does Australia rely on?
• Dependence of the United Arab Emirates on China
• Dependence of the United Arab Emirates on India
• Dependence of the United Arab Emirates on Saudi Arabia
• Dependence of the United Arab Emirates on Brazil
• Dependence of the United Arab Emirates on Switzerland
• Dependence of the United Arab Emirates on the United States
• Dependence of the United Arab Emirates on Hong Kong
• Trade profile of the United Arab Emirates
• Trade profile of Australia
• 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.