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Trade between Kazakhstan and the United Kingdom

In 2024, Kazakhstan exported $6 billion to the United Kingdom and imported $474 million. Kazakhstan ran a surplus of $5.5 billion with the United Kingdom, compared with a surplus of $262 million in 2019. The United Kingdom was Kazakhstan’s 5th largest trading partner (4% of its trade), and Kazakhstan was the United Kingdom’s 36th (0.6%).

Summary

Kazakhstan → United Kingdom
$6billion
United Kingdom → Kazakhstan
$474million
Kazakhstan’s balance
$5.5billion

Balance

Kazakhstan’s trade balance with the United Kingdom

Trade between Kazakhstan and the United Kingdom grew 57.7-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 6
  • Imports 0.5
  • Balance +5.5

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$75 million$36 million$39 million
1996$73 million$50 million$24 million
1997$15 million$86 million-$71 million
1998$514 million$227 million$287 million
1999$70 million$103 million-$33 million
2000$315 million$105 million$210 million
2001$360 million$254 million$106 million
2002$172 million$256 million-$84 million
2003$201 million$246 million-$44 million
2004$303 million$313 million-$9 million
2005$366 million$415 million-$49 million
2006$1.4 billion$497 million$923 million
2007$1.4 billion$809 million$564 million
2008$1.8 billion$648 million$1.1 billion
2009$1.3 billion$664 million$629 million
2010$1.2 billion$694 million$509 million
2011$1.5 billion$518 million$1 billion
2012$1.7 billion$572 million$1.1 billion
2013$892 million$675 million$218 million
2014$575 million$662 million-$88 million
2015$931 million$590 million$341 million
2016$955 million$369 million$585 million
2017$1.2 billion$379 million$801 million
2018$865 million$501 million$364 million
2019$751 million$489 million$262 million
2020$733 million$320 million$413 million
2021$4.2 billion$377 million$3.8 billion
2022$7.8 billion$348 million$7.4 billion
2023$14.3 billion$477 million$13.8 billion
2024$6 billion$474 million$5.5 billion

What they sell each other

What Kazakhstan sells to the United Kingdom

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

  1. Gold$5.4 billion · 90.4%
    65 tonnes · Kazakhstan’s destinations
  2. Silver$267 million · 4.5%
    283 tonnes · the United Kingdom’s sources
  3. Crude petroleum$230 million · 3.9%
    340 thousand tonnes · Kazakhstan’s destinations
  4. Airplanes and helicopters$13 million · 0.21%
    31 tonnes · the United Kingdom’s sources
  5. Ferroalloys$11 million · 0.18%
    5 thousand tonnes · Kazakhstan’s destinations
  6. Flaxseed$8 million · 0.13%
    8 thousand tonnes
  7. Chromium oxides$7 million · 0.12%
    6 thousand tonnes
  8. Ethyl alcohol (ethanol)$5 million · 0.09%
    6 thousand tonnes
  9. Refined petroleum$5 million · 0.08%
    6 thousand tonnes · Kazakhstan’s destinations
  10. Unwrought lead$3 million · 0.05%
    4 thousand tonnes

What the United Kingdom sells to Kazakhstan

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

  1. Cars$53 million · 11.1%
    1 thousand tonnes · the United Kingdom’s destinations
  2. Spirits$29 million · 6%
    4 thousand tonnes
  3. Bulldozers and excavators$27 million · 5.6%
    3 thousand tonnes · the United Kingdom’s destinations
  4. Valves and taps$17 million · 3.7%
    95 tonnes
  5. Other iron or steel articles$15 million · 3.2%
    683 tonnes
  6. Liquid pumps$14 million · 3%
    369 tonnes
  7. 11 tonnes
  8. Turbojets and gas turbines$12 million · 2.5%
    12 tonnes · the United Kingdom’s destinations
  9. 144 tonnes · the United Kingdom’s destinations
  10. Jewelry$11 million · 2.2%
    the United Kingdom’s destinations

How it travels

Kazakhstan and the United Kingdom traded $6.4 billion in 2024 (both directions together). They trade mostly by air: 92% of the value travels by plane.

Split by transport mode

  1. Sea$517 million · 8%
  2. Air$5.9 billion · 92%

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

How much each matters to the other

The United Kingdom was Kazakhstan’s 5th largest trading partner (4% of its trade), and Kazakhstan was the United Kingdom’s 36th (0.6%).

The United Kingdom in Kazakhstan’s trade
4.2%
The United Kingdom’s rank among Kazakhstan’s partners
5th
Kazakhstan in the United Kingdom’s trade
0.6%
Kazakhstan’s rank among the United Kingdom’s partners
36th

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Sources and methodology

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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.