How dependent is Vietnam on Cambodia?

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%.

• Cambodia sells 4.9% of what the world exports of rice; next come India (29.3%), Thailand (17.2%) and Pakistan (10.1%). The rest of the world exported 23.5 times what Vietnam buys from Cambodia.
• Cambodia sells 3.8% of what the world exports of natural rubber; next come Thailand (30.7%), Indonesia (18.9%) and Côte d'Ivoire (16.1%). The rest of the world exported 28.4 times what Vietnam buys from Cambodia.
• Cambodia sells 22.8% of what the world exports of cassava and other roots; next come Thailand (17.6%), Laos (13.4%) and United States (7.1%). The rest of the world exported 4.4 times what Vietnam buys from Cambodia.
• Cambodia sells 8.6% of what the world exports of natural sand; next come United States (18.4%), Australia (10.5%) and Germany (7.2%). The rest of the world exported 10.4 times what Vietnam buys from Cambodia.
• Cambodia sells 0.02% of what the world exports of firewood and wood chips; next come United States (18%), Australia (7%) and Canada (5%). The rest of the world exported 6,444.2 times what Vietnam buys from Cambodia.
• Cambodia sells 1.1% of what the world exports of bananas; next come Ecuador (28.3%), Colombia (10.9%) and Costa Rica (10.7%). The rest of the world exported 12,466.9 times what Vietnam buys from Cambodia.

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

Vietnam is Cambodia’s 2nd-largest customer, with 9% of its exports.

• Trade between Vietnam and Cambodia
• Who does Vietnam rely on?
• Who does Cambodia rely on?
• Dependence of Vietnam on China
• Dependence of Vietnam on Argentina
• Dependence of Vietnam on Indonesia
• Dependence of Vietnam on Hong Kong
• Dependence of Vietnam on Australia
• Dependence of Vietnam on India
• Dependence of Vietnam on the United States
• Dependence of Vietnam on Japan
• Dependence of Vietnam on South Korea
• Dependence of Vietnam on Thailand
• Dependence of Vietnam on Singapore
• Dependence of Vietnam on Germany
• Trade profile of Vietnam
• Trade profile of Cambodia
• 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.