How dependent is Uzbekistan on Kazakhstan?

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%.

• Kazakhstan sells 2% of what the world exports of wheat; next come Russia (16.1%), Canada (13.7%) and United States (11.5%). The rest of the world exported 101.5 times what Uzbekistan buys from Kazakhstan.
• Kazakhstan sells 1.8% of what the world exports of semi-finished steel; next come Russia (19.8%), Brazil (11.9%) and China (10.7%). The rest of the world exported 165.2 times what Uzbekistan buys from Kazakhstan.
• Kazakhstan sells 2.3% of what the world exports of sunflower, safflower and cottonseed oil; next come Ukraine (29.5%), Russia (24.1%) and Turkey (7%). The rest of the world exported 110.4 times what Uzbekistan buys from Kazakhstan.
• Kazakhstan sells 8.6% of what the world exports of wheat flour; next come Turkey (20.1%), Germany (8%) and Egypt (7.9%). The rest of the world exported 38 times what Uzbekistan buys from Kazakhstan.
• Kazakhstan sells 1.4% of what the world exports of steel bars; next come Turkey (11.5%), China (10.8%) and Malaysia (10.3%). The rest of the world exported 330.5 times what Uzbekistan buys from Kazakhstan.
• Kazakhstan sells 2.8% of what the world exports of zinc ore; next come Peru (15.8%), Australia (11.9%) and United States (11.5%). The rest of the world exported 308.2 times what Uzbekistan buys from Kazakhstan.
• Kazakhstan sells 0.36% of what the world exports of lignite; next come Indonesia (86.5%), Philippines (4.5%) and Russia (3.9%). The rest of the world exported 317.9 times what Uzbekistan buys from Kazakhstan.
• Kazakhstan sells 0.68% of what the world exports of potatoes; next come France (21.6%), Netherlands (15.1%) and Germany (14.2%). The rest of the world exported 207.8 times what Uzbekistan buys from Kazakhstan.
• Kazakhstan sells 0.91% of what the world exports of meal from other oilseeds; next come Canada (19.1%), Indonesia (18.2%) and Ukraine (10.2%). The rest of the world exported 309.6 times what Uzbekistan buys from Kazakhstan.
• Kazakhstan sells 0.83% of what the world exports of aluminum wire; next come Canada (11.8%), Bahrain (11.3%) and India (8.6%). The rest of the world exported 172.7 times what Uzbekistan buys from Kazakhstan.

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

Uzbekistan is Kazakhstan’s 12th-largest customer, with 3% of its exports.

• Trade between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan
• Who does Uzbekistan rely on?
• Who does Kazakhstan rely on?
• Dependence of Uzbekistan on China
• Dependence of Uzbekistan on Russia
• Trade profile of Uzbekistan
• Trade profile of Kazakhstan
• 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.