Barite: top exporters and importers (2024)

1. India$184 million · 19.7%
2. China$150 million · 16%
3. Morocco$143 million · 15.2%
4. Laos$102 million · 10.9%
5. Turkey$62 million · 6.6%
6. Netherlands$41 million · 4.4%
   re-exports
7. Mexico$38 million · 4.1%
8. Kazakhstan$27 million · 2.9%
9. Germany$26 million · 2.7%
10. Vietnam$25 million · 2.6%
11. Spain$23 million · 2.5%
12. Tunisia$17 million · 1.8%
13. United States$17 million · 1.8%
14. Bulgaria$13 million · 1.4%
15. Bolivia$12 million · 1.3%
16. Pakistan$11 million · 1.2%
17. Thailand$10 million · 1.1%
18. Iran$6 million · 0.6%
19. Peru$5 million · 0.5%
20. Kuwait$4 million · 0.4%

India went from 8.3% to 19.7% of world exports of barite

In 2024, India accounted for 19.7% of recorded world exports and the three largest exporters together for 50.9%. HHI: 1,114 out of 10,000; equivalent to 9 exporters of the same size.

Share of recorded exports, not of production: a country that produces a lot and consumes almost all of it may export little

Countries where India sells more than half of what they buy

Countries that buy more than half of this product from its largest exporter, with its share.

• Saudi Arabia: 52.6% of its purchases · Dependence of Saudi Arabia on India
• United Arab Emirates: 80.2% of its purchases · Dependence of the United Arab Emirates on India

1. United States$243 million · 26%
2. Saudi Arabia$130 million · 13.9%
3. Argentina$48 million · 5.1%
4. Italy$36 million · 3.8%
5. Norway$28 million · 3%
6. Turkey$27 million · 2.9%
7. United Arab Emirates$24 million · 2.6%
8. Kuwait$23 million · 2.5%
9. Netherlands$20 million · 2.2%
   re-exports
10. Germany$19 million · 2%
11. Spain$18 million · 1.9%
12. Thailand$16 million · 1.7%
13. Algeria$16 million · 1.7%
14. Guyana$16 million · 1.7%
15. Malaysia$14 million · 1.5%
16. Russia$14 million · 1.5%
17. Canada$13 million · 1.3%
18. Indonesia$12 million · 1.3%
19. Turkmenistan$12 million · 1.3%
20. South Korea$12 million · 1.2%

• 2511 · Barite

Products in the same chapter

• Cement
• Other minerals
• Sulfur
• Phosphate rock
• Salt
• Gravel and crushed stone
• Graphite
• Clays

Sources and licenses

• CEPII BACI · Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0
• Natural Earth · Public domain

Methodology

Goods trade from CEPII BACI (BACI_HS92_V202601), which reconciles what exporters and importers report: countries that stopped reporting (Russia since 2022) appear with their partners’ data. FOB values in current US dollars; tonnes when BACI reports them. The price per tonne is the value of the rows with a weight divided by that weight. The transport mode is our own estimate based on value per kilo and geography. Data up to 2024.

Hong Kong, Singapore, the Netherlands and Belgium re-export goods from other countries: their figures include transit.