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Trade between Japan and Kazakhstan

In 2024, Japan exported $1.2 billion to Kazakhstan and imported $617 million. Japan ran a surplus of $598 million with Kazakhstan, compared with a deficit of $361 million in 2019. Kazakhstan was Japan’s 52nd largest trading partner (0.1% of its trade), and Japan was Kazakhstan’s 17th (1%).

Summary

Japan → Kazakhstan
$1.2billion
Kazakhstan → Japan
$617million
Japan’s balance
$598million

Balance

Japan’s trade balance with Kazakhstan

Trade between Japan and Kazakhstan grew 32.7-fold since 1995

USD billions (current). Japan’s exports and imports; bars: its balance (green surplus, red deficit).

  • Exports 1.2
  • Imports 0.6
  • Balance +0.6

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$16 million$40 million-$25 million
1996$33 million$126 million-$93 million
1997$31 million$194 million-$164 million
1998$77 million$119 million-$42 million
1999$61 million$83 million-$22 million
2000$69 million$91 million-$23 million
2001$147 million$107 million$40 million
2002$180 million$95 million$85 million
2003$209 million$155 million$53 million
2004$387 million$246 million$142 million
2005$578 million$338 million$240 million
2006$889 million$282 million$606 million
2007$1.3 billion$393 million$936 million
2008$937 million$810 million$127 million
2009$590 million$285 million$305 million
2010$543 million$570 million-$27 million
2011$625 million$918 million-$293 million
2012$884 million$903 million-$20 million
2013$1.1 billion$603 million$448 million
2014$1 billion$686 million$345 million
2015$577 million$847 million-$270 million
2016$551 million$583 million-$32 million
2017$420 million$1.1 billion-$643 million
2018$496 million$1.5 billion-$1 billion
2019$591 million$952 million-$361 million
2020$373 million$696 million-$322 million
2021$361 million$625 million-$264 million
2022$687 million$818 million-$131 million
2023$1.6 billion$614 million$958 million
2024$1.2 billion$617 million$598 million

What they sell each other

What Japan sells to Kazakhstan

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Cars$655 million · 53.9%
    36 thousand tonnes · Japan’s destinations
  2. Bulldozers and excavators$96 million · 7.9%
    11 thousand tonnes · Japan’s destinations
  3. New tires$49 million · 4.1%
    7 thousand tonnes · Japan’s destinations
  4. Medical and dental instruments$43 million · 3.5%
    138 tonnes · Japan’s destinations
  5. Auto parts$26 million · 2.2%
    4 thousand tonnes · Japan’s destinations
  6. Trucks$19 million · 1.6%
    3 thousand tonnes · Japan’s destinations
  7. Generating sets$17 million · 1.4%
    80 tonnes
  8. Spark plugs, starters and ignition equipment$13 million · 1.1%
    248 tonnes
  9. Liquid pumps$11 million · 0.91%
    222 tonnes
  10. X-ray and radiation equipment$10 million · 0.85%
    37 tonnes

What Kazakhstan sells to Japan

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Ferroalloys$501 million · 81.1%
    287 thousand tonnes · Kazakhstan’s destinations
  2. Coal$46 million · 7.5%
    321 thousand tonnes · Japan’s sources
  3. Unwrought aluminum$45 million · 7.3%
    26 thousand tonnes · Japan’s sources
  4. Tantalum$15 million · 2.5%
    32 tonnes
  5. Chromium oxides$3 million · 0.5%
    865 tonnes
  6. Copper master alloys$2 million · 0.37%
    84 tonnes
  7. Other zinc articles$1 million · 0.2%
    469 tonnes
  8. Rolled oats and other processed grains$841 thousand · 0.14%
    1 thousand tonnes
  9. Quinoa, millet and other cereals$700 thousand · 0.11%
    1 thousand tonnes
  10. Hydrogen and rare gases$488 thousand · 0.08%
    125 tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Yokohama to Novorossiysk (Russia).

The estimated sea route between Yokohama and Novorossiysk (Russia) is 16,101 nautical miles (29,819 km) long: ≈ 37.5–48 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Because of the 2024 disruptions, traffic is split: 85% via the Strait of Malacca and Singapore, the Cape of Good Hope, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Dardanelles and the Bosporus (16,101 nautical miles); and 15% via the Strait of Malacca and Singapore, the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, the Suez Canal, the Dardanelles and the Bosporus (9,360 nautical miles).

Kazakhstan is landlocked: it ships through Novorossiysk (Russia).

Sailing estimate without port calls, waiting or transshipment; not a schedule. One main reference port per country: in large countries it does not represent all of its ports.

Split by transport mode

  1. Sea$1.6 billion · 86.7%
  2. Air$244 million · 13.3%

Mode estimated from value per kilo and geography; both directions together.

How much each matters to the other

Kazakhstan was Japan’s 52nd largest trading partner (0.1% of its trade), and Japan was Kazakhstan’s 17th (1%).

Kazakhstan in Japan’s trade
0.1%
Kazakhstan’s rank among Japan’s partners
52nd
Japan in Kazakhstan’s trade
1.2%
Japan’s rank among Kazakhstan’s partners
17th

Compare with

Other partners of Japan

Other partners of Kazakhstan

Sources and methodology

Sources and licenses

Methodology

Goods trade from CEPII BACI (BACI_HS92_V202601), in current US dollars, with exports and imports reconciled between countries. The transport mode is our own estimate based on value per kilo and geography. The sea route comes from our own network derived from World Bank shipping density (not from nautical charts), between one main reference port per country (World Port Index); days are the distance at 14 and 18 knots, without port calls or waiting. Data up to 2024.