How dependent is the United Kingdom on Norway?

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%.

• Norway sells 11% of what the world exports of natural gas and LPG; next come United States (18%), Australia (10%) and Qatar (9.1%). The rest of the world exported 33.6 times what the United Kingdom buys from Norway.
• Norway sells 6.1% of what the world exports of dredgers and floating cranes; next come China (23.7%), South Korea (12.3%) and Saudi Arabia (9.9%). The rest of the world exported 27.1 times what the United Kingdom buys from Norway.
• Norway sells 34.5% of what the world exports of fresh fish; next come Sweden (8.5%), Denmark (5.8%) and Chile (5.2%). The rest of the world exported 28.2 times what the United Kingdom buys from Norway.
• Norway sells 3.8% of what the world exports of unwrought zinc; next come Spain (9.9%), South Korea (9.5%) and Australia (8.3%). The rest of the world exported 105.7 times what the United Kingdom buys from Norway.
• Norway sells 13.6% of what the world exports of fishing vessels; next come Turkey (21.3%), Spain (13.6%) and China (12.1%). The rest of the world exported 78.7 times what the United Kingdom buys from Norway.
• Norway sells 31.1% of what the world exports of wood pulp lyes (lignosulfonates); next come United States (14.6%), Sweden (10.9%) and Russia (7.8%). The rest of the world exported 34.7 times what the United Kingdom buys from Norway.

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

The United Kingdom is Norway’s 1st-largest customer, with 17.6% of its exports.

• Trade between the United Kingdom and Norway
• Who does the United Kingdom rely on?
• Who does Norway rely on?
• Dependence of the United Kingdom on China
• Dependence of the United Kingdom on the United States
• Dependence of the United Kingdom on Ireland
• Dependence of the United Kingdom on Spain
• Dependence of the United Kingdom on Switzerland
• Dependence of the United Kingdom on the Netherlands
• Dependence of the United Kingdom on Belgium
• Dependence of the United Kingdom on Italy
• Dependence of the United Kingdom on Germany
• Trade profile of the United Kingdom
• Trade profile of Norway
• 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.