13 countries made India their biggest medicine supplier

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UN Statistics Division, UN Comtrade, HS 300490 (medicaments in measured doses or retail packs, not elsewhere specified in heading 3004), annual imports by partner, current US$, as reported by each importing country; read from the UN Comtrade API via the progrss vault (vault rule GUIDELINES §4.11; un-comtrade 24 matches, 0 mismatches). Two-year averages (2015–16 and 2023–24) smooth one-year swings. Set: the 136 economies (India excluded) that reported this code in all four years and imported at least US$1 million a year on average in both periods; the vault holds each reporter's world total and its ten largest partners. Top supplier = largest partner by value. Hub economies that re-export (Hong Kong, Singapore, the Netherlands, Belgium, the UAE, Panama) are not counted as origins; 'Areas nes' is not an origin either; where one of these led, the next partner is the top supplier. Partner is the origin as recorded by the importer; the exporter's own figures (mirror data) can differ and are not shown. Code definition: the HS 2017 revision moved artemisinin-based antimalarials out of 300490 into 300460, so later years cover slightly fewer products; vaccines, antibiotics and hormones sit in other codes. Map colour: yellow = the 13 importers whose top supplier was another country in 2015–16 and India in 2023–24; hover shows India's share of each importer's 2023–24 imports (0 = India not among its ten largest suppliers). In 2025, a year with fewer reporters, India stayed top in 37 of 124 importers that reported 2022–2025 (2024: 38). Counts and shares are progrss calculations. Comtrade images may be used with credit.